SHORTS PROGRAMS Docu-Shorts Available Wednesday, March 16th / 4:00pm / Virtual Screening ALE LIBRE Dir. Maya Micaela Cueva (USA, 6 min., English, Spanish w/ English subtitles) Alejandra is a criminalized organizer and unapologetic immigrant. While she prepares for one of the biggest events of her life — her deportation case — Alejandra is forced to reckon with a past mistake and a system that could tear her apart from her family and the only home she has ever known. ARCHEOLOGY OF THE WORKERS´DIGNITY Dir. Uli Stelzner (Guatemala/Germany, 30 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles) In neoliberal times, trade unions and labor rights are increasingly a topic for archaeologists. The film portrays an old trade unionist in Guatemala, delving into shameful working conditions and devastating consequences of the pandemic. CASABE CUBANO Dir. Marcos Colón (USA/Cuba, 13 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles) Atilano Santiesteban & Melba Barata’s love story is recounted alongside the multi-step process of cassava flour in this charming short. LA CACHERA Dir. Felipe H. Caro (Colombia, 13 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles) When a couple fights publicly, leave each other and eventually reconcile as if nothing happened, the neighbors organize for them a CACHERA; a bizarre serenade to ridicule them with sharp verses, trumpets, sticks and pans, in the middle of the night. DESDE ARRIBA Dir. León Boltvinik (Mexico, 12 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles) From the interiors of middle class apartments of Mexico City, everyday scenes are interrupted by the presence of people flying outside the window. We follow the daily routine of high rise window cleaners, their voice-over shows us their perspective about risking their life every day, an observational documentary on inequality. ( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) (ECOS DEL VOLCAN) Dir. Charles Fairbanks, Saul Kak (Mexico, 18 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles)
A sonic portrait of a Chiapan village focused on architecture and public space. Filmed over six years, ( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) is a sensory ethnography of culture and communication in a community founded by volcano eruption refugees.
JULI Dir. Verónica A. Vega Bon (Puerto Rico, 8 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles) During the last few years, the community of the University of Puerto Rico has been severely affected by budget cuts and the student athlete population is one of the most impacted. Is the sacrifice worth it? "JULI" follows a day in the busy life of the student athlete Juliedys Pinero. TO BE AN AMERICAN Dir. Marco Castro (USA, 4 min., English) Intentionally filmed handheld, as if shot by a close family member, with a sense of paradise lost for this Latinx youth. The film intimately shares the voices of a new generation of Latinos and their hope for the new US. Frontera Filmmakers Documentary Shorts Screening at Drive-in Double Feature March 11th, 2021 Available Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 / 4:00pm / Virtual Screening A MI MATRIA Dir. Rafael Flores (USA, 27 min., English, Spanish w/ English subtitles) An experimental political essay about a Chicano filmmaker escorting his Mexican grandmother from Tijuana to Newport Beach, California; the place she was intimated into leaving over 85 years ago during the U.S. sponsored effort: OPERATION WETBACK. BORDER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: A VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER Dir. James Cooper, Sebastian Vives del Solar (USA, 20 min., English, Spanish w/ English subtitles)
This documentary explores the roles that private actors – from the immigrants themselves to the multinational corporations that incarcerate them after they have crossed la frontera – play along the United States-Mexico border. BORDER FLOWS Dir. Brendan Byrne (USA, 15 min., English, Spanish w/ English subtitles) 'BORDER FLOWS' tackles an incredibly complex socio-environmental issue through a cultural lens, highlighting the cooperation between US and Mexican community members, politicians, and cultures to create solutions to this pressing issue. DIA DE LAS MADRES Dir. Moises Barba, David Hutchinson (USA, 10 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles)
Separated by the US-Mexico border for more than 30 years, Eddy and his mom try to reconnect over the phone.
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