28th San Diego Latino Film Festival

Frontera Filmmakers Documentary Shorts Program

Expired March 18, 2021 7:00 AM
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9 films + livestream in package
Border Flows
BORDER FLOWS' is a documentary short looking at the complex transnational issue of cross border pollution in the Tijuana River Valley Watershed and its impact on community members on either side of the border. The film highlights the environmental crisis of cross border pollution, while juxtaposing the rigidity of the US-Mexican border wall with the fluidity of water and air pollution.
A Mi Matria
An experimental documentary about a Chicano filmmaker escorting his Mexican grandmother from Tijuana to Orange County California; the place she was intimated into leaving 85 years ago during the U.S. sponsored "Repatriation Movement".
Oscar's Story
Oscar lives his life in the shadows of the American dream. Feeling like an American in a country that doesn't see him as one.
Telas
TELAS is a small story about work and care in the midst of a global pandemic.
Border Industrial Complex: Stories from the United States-Mexico Border
The Border Industrial Complex is a tragic landscape of profit corporations and not for profit organizations working transnationally across borders. Private actors ply their trade and migrants suffer.
Matronas
Facing increasing repression, Salvadoran midwives fight to protect women’s autonomy and safety, and to preserve the cultural heritage that is their work.
Día de las Madres
Separated by the US/Mexico border for more than 30 years, Eddy and his mom try to reconnect over the phone.
Too Long Here
First Lady Pat Nixon inaugurates “Friendship Park” where the US-Mexico border meets the sea, but decades later will her promise of a shared space hold up?
Las Reinas de los Cuentos
Two queens let children's imaginations soar through the magic of storytelling.
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Frontera Filmmakers Documentary Shorts Q&A
A Q&A featuring the participants of Frontera Filmmakers Documentary Shorts!
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Salvadoran midwives, who delivered babies even during the Civil War, now fight to protect their ancestral role in the face of government repression. As people in El Salvador lose their right to birth at home, dehumanizing hospital experiences become the standard way of ushering life into the world and indigenous midwifery traditions are at risk of being lost.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    27 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish
  • Country
    El Salvador, USA
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
  • Rating
    UR
  • Director
    Noemí Delgado & Shara Lili
  • Producer
    Shara Lili & Noemí Delgado Delgado
  • Executive Producer
    Shara Lili & Noemí Delgadoi Delgado
  • Cast
    María de los Ángeles Acosta Ardón, María Magdalena Rodas Arias, Ana Teresa Avalos, Dinora Cabrera, María Chicas, Nohemy Coreas, Ángela Luz Barahona de Avalos, Maria Cristina Ortiz de Campo, Fredelinda Antonia Recinos de Cerón, María Elena de España, Natividad Escobar de Henriquez, Fatima de Hernández, Dolores Margarita Marroquín de Hernández, Cecilia de, María Rivera de López, Francisca Catalina Blanco de Ortiz, Estela Villacorta de Rivas, María Dolores “Lola” Hernández de Rivera, Reina Marlenis Escobar Figueroa, María Melia Martínez Flamenco, Sandra Marciela Flores, Bonifacia Ascencio García, Lucía Rutilla González, Alba Alas Guardado, Vilma Coreas Guzmán, Cecilia Hernández, María “Patricia” Higinia Hernández, Esther Herrera, Angélica de la Paz Martínez León, María Martina Lucero, Vicenta Martínez, Morena Elí Orellana Menjivar, María Amalia Molina Menjivar, Sonia Alicia Cruz Montoya, Tomasa Jovita Torres, Yessenia de Jesús Canjura Trejo
  • Cinematographer
    Shara Lili
  • Editor
    Shara Lili
  • Animator
    Judith Umaña
  • Composer
    Ábel M. G. E.
  • Sound Design
    Shara Lili
  • Music
    Ábel M. G. E. & Yulu Wek (vocalist)
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