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HIMC presents: Films Beyond Borders - January 16th at Rice Cinema
by IMC Video Posse
Thursday, Jan. 03, 2008 at 10:53 PM
imc-houston-video@lists.indymedia.org
Flyer ad details for the January 16th Houston Indymedia Film Screening.
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Houston Indymedia is proud to continue
our series of progressive documentary
films at Rice Cinema this January the 16th at 8pm, with 5 short films on
struggles for human dignity and freedom
of movement. From Indiana, California and
Texas, the experiences of immigrant youth,
anti-border activists and detained migrants tell
stories that can break through the systems of
exclusion and give a glimpse of our common humanity.
Rice Cinema is located on Rice University Campus at Entrance
#8, University and Stockton Ave
Loz Invenzivlez/Our Invincible Youth
30 minutes, 2007, FIRME productions, English and Spanish, USA
Elementary, high school and college students from Indianapolis, Indiana have created a documentary, Loz Invenzivlez/Our Invincible Youth, exploring the educational dreams, realities, and sometimes nightmares of Latin@ children who immigrated to Indianapolis. The film explores issues of education, immigration and identity through the eyes of youth, who rarely speak and are seldom heard on such issues important to Indiana and our nation.
The film was created to be more than a documentary, but with the goal of raising consciousness and moving the audience from Empathy to Solidarity. “Like all of us, immigrant youth are just trying to make a good life for themselves,” says IUPUI Professor José Rosario, director of El Puente Project, a partner in the event. “And like all of us, they long to share what that means to them. So it is fitting that we be generous of heart and listen to their story. “
Hutto: Americas Family Prison
15 minutes, 2007, Matthew Gossage & Lily Keber, English and Spanish, USA
"Hutto: America's Family Prison," details the prison-like conditions at the T. Don Hutto "residential facility" in Taylor, TX. About 500 immigrants and asylum-seekers from around the world, more than half of them children, are detained at the prison. This film explores this troubling dynamic of incarcerating families of immigrants and asylum seekers from the eyes of lawyers, human rights activists, and formerly detained families.
The Wall and the River
9 minutes, 2007, Arizona Indymedia & Indymedia Newsreal, English, USA
The US Border Wall being built in Arizona is about to cut off the San Pedro Riparian Natural Corridor, The only river on the Arizona-Mexico border that flows all year long. The plans of the Department of Homeland Security to cut off this river will have permanent impacts on the wildlife and water in this very fragile ecosystem, and will be a limited deterent for people trying to cross. This production for Indymedia Newsreal looks at the battle to save this ecological area from the current hysteria over immigration.
And More!
We will be screening a number of short video pieces on the No Border Camp that took place in Calexico/Mexicali in late 2007, and hopefully a piece on the Houston Sin Fronteras Action of June 2007
Flyer Document in High Quality for printing
by IMC Video Posse
Thursday, Jan. 03, 2008 at 10:53 PM
imc-houston-video@lists.indymedia.org
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