
The Border Industrial Complex is a tragic landscape of profit corporations and not for profit organizations working transnationally across borders. Building on the privatization in other industries like education, healthcare, waste management, and other public utilities, non-state actors are increasingly assuming the roles that had previously rested with state agencies and public institutions. Corporations bid for contracts to build the wall between Mexico and the United States. Private prisons warehouse undocumented immigrants in far off places like Christmas Island, around France and its territories, throughout the United Kingdom and right in our own backyard, in Otay Mesa, California. Faith-based groups and immigrant rights groups do the humanitarian work and legal representation that government welfare agencies used to provide. 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.
- Year2021
- Runtime20 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada, Chile, USA
- PremiereWorld Premiere
- RatingUR
- DirectorJames Cooper & Sebastián Vives del Solar
- ProducerJames Cooper & Sebastián Vives del Solar
- CinematographerSebastian Vives del Solar
- EditorSebastian Vives del Solar
- MusicAndrew Muroff & DJ Fat Pablo
The Border Industrial Complex is a tragic landscape of profit corporations and not for profit organizations working transnationally across borders. Building on the privatization in other industries like education, healthcare, waste management, and other public utilities, non-state actors are increasingly assuming the roles that had previously rested with state agencies and public institutions. Corporations bid for contracts to build the wall between Mexico and the United States. Private prisons warehouse undocumented immigrants in far off places like Christmas Island, around France and its territories, throughout the United Kingdom and right in our own backyard, in Otay Mesa, California. Faith-based groups and immigrant rights groups do the humanitarian work and legal representation that government welfare agencies used to provide. 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.
- Year2021
- Runtime20 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada, Chile, USA
- PremiereWorld Premiere
- RatingUR
- DirectorJames Cooper & Sebastián Vives del Solar
- ProducerJames Cooper & Sebastián Vives del Solar
- CinematographerSebastian Vives del Solar
- EditorSebastian Vives del Solar
- MusicAndrew Muroff & DJ Fat Pablo