Movie: “Borderland” Special Showing

Borderland | The Line Within
Sunday Nov 10 at 2pm
$10 IN ADVANCE
$15 AT THE DOOR
$25 for 2 AT THE DOOR

Arts Council members will receive $1 off beer/cocktails & $1 off popcorn.

LOCATION: El Cortez Theater, 415 Main, T or C

ADVANCE ONLINE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT https://bit.ly/3OV6OPh or call 575-740-4526

The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed.

BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.

BORDERLAND | The Line Within is a Skylight production with cinematography by Juan Hernández, AEC, sound by David Fournier Castillo, editing by Peter Kinoy, music by Sara Curruchich and Roger C. Miller, produced by Paco de Onís and directed by Pamela Yates. Featuring Kaxh Mura’l, Gabriela Castañeda, Alex Gil, Roopika Risam, Manan Ahmad, Giovanni Batz, Carlos Spector, Fernando García, Gabriela Murillo and Saba.

BORDERLAND was independently produced with funding from Ford Foundation, CrossCurrents Foundation, Nia Tero Foundation, InMaat Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, Bertha Foundation, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, and the International Documentary Association’s Enterprise Fund.

Additional information from the producers:

Five years in the making,  exposes the war waged on immigrants daily in the United States through a massive system of surveillance and a militarized border industrial complex. This well documented large scale human rights crisis is setting the stage for an entire class of people to live in fear of a carceral system that treats them as criminals. But the film’s protagonists, all immigrants themselves, are quietly building strength, their leadership emerging in the shadow of this border-industrial complex.

The film begins south of the U.S. border, following the story of Maya human rights defender Kaxh Mura’l, as he flees death threats for his successful resistance preventing mining companies from encroaching on ancestral lands. As his journey north unfolds, Kaxh meets Gabriela Castañeda and people from the Border Network for Human Rights. They share with Kaxh their mobilization of immigrants to organize, educate themselves and assert their constitutional rights, in spite of overwhelming odds.

The narrative thread that weaves BORDERLAND together is a group of PhD digital humanists, immigrants all, working underground at Columbia University in New York City, researching, scraping the web, and creatively visualizing the inner workings of the border-industrial complex. They ask and answer: Who is involved? What’s the money flow? Where are the many ICE detention centers that dot the country, far from the border itself? How is the fear of immigrants, characterized as the “other” used as a gateway to autocratic governance? And they reveal the exponential growth of the Customs and Border Protection’s budget – $25 billion tax payer’s dollars in 2024.

A possible discussion to follow the video.

Content for this article was provided by the Sierra County Arts Council.