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
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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". Through this emotional journey the grandson learns about his grandmother's struggle to validate the memories of a history that is being erased, and that his homeland is not Mexico - it's California. Feat. Rigoberto Gonzalez and Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S.A. Poet Laureate.

  • Year
    2018
  • Runtime
    27 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish, English
  • Country
    USA, México
  • Premiere
    San Diego Premiere
  • Rating
    UR
  • Director
    Rafael Flores
  • Cast
    Leonor Gonzalez
  • Cinematographer
    Stefan Ruenzel
  • Editor
    Rafael Flores
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