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January 21, 2009 Panama-born filmmaker Anayansi Prado focuses on immigrants to the US. Maybe you've seen her Maid In America on public television and strongly recommended in the pages of Críticas.
Her new documentary from Impacto Films is about the littlest victims of the far-from-imaginary line that is the US-Mexico border. Children in No Man's Land/Niños en tierra de nadie opens with scenes from Nogales, the twin cities that straddle the Arizona-Sonora border.
This seven-minute trailer gives you a taste of Prado's look at the compelling reality of families split apart by la línea and the heartbreaking quest of small children to rejoin their parents and kin up north.
A dozen years ago I stayed in a cheap hotel in Nogales, Sonora. Its window looked on a ramshackle section of border fence; I saw kids passing through the slack barbed wire as if it were a joke. A whole lot has changed since then.
Legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus was born in Nogales, but on the Arizona side. The film uses an aerial shot to quickly show viewers some of the contrasts that border denizens know well. Had Mingus started out on the Sonora side, he might've hooked up with Los Jets and then you never would have heard of him.
The camera takes you to a shelter for youngsters who were caught trying to cross, and to the Illinois home of the mother of one of the little girls stuck there. Regardless of your views on immigration, the pathos and urgency in these stories will surely grab you in the gut. With your feet in those kids' shoes, it might be hard to imagine not trying to cross the line. This a film certain to spur viewers of all stripes to think a bit harder on the issues.
Children in No Man's Land a gut-wrenching look at the border
January 21, 2009 Panama-born filmmaker Anayansi Prado focuses on immigrants to the US. Maybe you've seen her Maid In America on public television and strongly recommended in the pages of Críticas.
Her new documentary from Impacto Films is about the littlest victims of the far-from-imaginary line that is the US-Mexico border. Children in No Man's Land/Niños en tierra de nadie opens with scenes from Nogales, the twin cities that straddle the Arizona-Sonora border.
This seven-minute trailer gives you a taste of Prado's look at the compelling reality of families split apart by la línea and the heartbreaking quest of small children to rejoin their parents and kin up north.
A dozen years ago I stayed in a cheap hotel in Nogales, Sonora. Its window looked on a ramshackle section of border fence; I saw kids passing through the slack barbed wire as if it were a joke. A whole lot has changed since then.
Legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus was born in Nogales, but on the Arizona side. The film uses an aerial shot to quickly show viewers some of the contrasts that border denizens know well. Had Mingus started out on the Sonora side, he might've hooked up with Los Jets and then you never would have heard of him.The camera takes you to a shelter for youngsters who were caught trying to cross, and to the Illinois home of the mother of one of the little girls stuck there. Regardless of your views on immigration, the pathos and urgency in these stories will surely grab you in the gut. With your feet in those kids' shoes, it might be hard to imagine not trying to cross the line. This a film certain to spur viewers of all stripes to think a bit harder on the issues.
Posted by Bruce Jensen on January 21, 2009 | Comments (1)
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