Free Screening: BORDERLAND

film

When

4 to 6 p.m., Sept. 29, 2024

Where

Loft Cinema
DocScapes presents:
BORDERLAND (Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, 2024)
Loft Cinema
Sunday, Sep 29, 4pm
FREE tickets available day of screening

IN PERSON:  Filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, along with human rights advocates

  • Isabel Garcia, Co-founder, Coalición de Derechos Humanos
  • Margo Cowan, Founder, Keep Tucson Together 
  • Vicki Gaubeca, Associate Director, U.S. Border and Immigration Policy, Human Rights Watch
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.

 
“A timely, topical film that sheds important light on ‘the war on immigrants’ in the U.S., and its political reasons through a deeply moving, human, and powerful story–told by the people at the heart of it ”  -- Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm, former Executive Director of WITNESS

Paco de Onis (Producer) is the Executive Director and Pamela Yates (Director) is the co-founder of Skylight, a human rights media organization dedicated to strengthening social justice movements through cinematic storytelling and catalyzing collaborative networks of artists and activists. 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.

DocScapes is a collaborative project of the UA Center for Documentary initiative and the Hanson Film Institute at the University of Arizona. This Loft screening is co-sponsored by the UA Center for Latin American Studies, School of Anthropology, and Human Rights Practice Program, with support from the School of Theatre, Film & Television.