US Premiere
Q&A Details
- Fri May 3: with director Pamela Yates, protagonist Gabriela Castañeda, Immigration Defense Project’s Yasmine Farhang and Alex Gil-Fuentes
- Wed May 8: with director Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onís
- Mon May 20: with director Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onís
There is a war on immigrants being waged every day in our country, and not just along the southern border - we have become a Borderland, the border is everywhere and within every immigrant. A massive surveillance, militarized and carceral apparatus has been built to capture, imprison and deport millions of immigrants. If Trump becomes president again, he vows to round up and force mass deportation of immigrants regardless of documentation status.
In Borderland | The Line Within a trio of digital humanists, immigrants themselves, dig deep into the hidden apparatus of the border industrial complex, exposing ruthless profiteering from the suffering of fellow humans. In juxtaposition, the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes forge a way forward, intent on building a movement claiming their human rights in the shadow of this behemoth. The protagonists’ engagement with each other via text, zoom, voice and in person, crafts our storylines into one coherent whole, envisioning a future for immigrants rooted in human connection and the sanctity of life.
Five years in the making, Borderland continues the cinematic journey that Director Pamela Yates has taken us on for the past 40 years, beginning with When The Mountains Tremble, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator and 500 Years.
Photo courtesy: Juan Hernández from Borderland (L to R: Saba, Giovanni Batz, Kaxh Mura’l, Francisco Chávez)