SUNDAY APRIL 7, 2024
Sunday April 7 at 2 PM
Las Promotoras
Alan Dominguez, Raul Paz Pastrana
Colorado, US, 2023, 25 Min
Filmmaker Alan Dominguez in Person
Alan Dominguez, Raul Paz Pastrana
Colorado, US, 2023, 25 Min
Filmmaker Alan Dominguez in Person
Cultivando, a small nonprofit in Adams County led by a handful of Indigenous, Latina women, is relentlessly fighting to end the environmental genocide that has led to decades of contamination of air, water and soil, in a predominantly Latino community and the subsequent impacts to health due to toxic exposure in the country’s most polluted zip code: 80216. The documentary tells the story of the Promotoras, fierce advocates from the community who work with neighbors to bring about social change. The environmental justice work of these warrior advocates shows us what is possible when the sheer power of community challenges the resident Goliath – the Suncor Oil Refinery.
The film will be followed by a community conversation facilitated by Jennifer Macias as part of the National Endowment for Humanities' United We Stand initiative.
Sunday April 7 at 3
PM
Expanding Sanctuary
Kristal Sotomayor US, 2023, 15 MIN
Kristal Sotomayor US, 2023, 15 MIN
Expanding Sanctuary covers the ordinary, extraordinary transformation of an immigrant Linda Hernandez who works to bring her mother to the US, changing her life and world-view entirely. The film documents this shift as she becomes a passionate organizer and emerges with her newfound voice, power, and agency. This journey, which started simply as a woman's wish to be close to her mom on her wedding day, gives her renewed purpose in life. Now, the goal she hopes to obtain is no longer solely for her, rather her work, in solidarity, benefits the entire community of immigrant laborers that surrounds her.
Mexican Americans Hit Homeruns in Kansas
Anita Mendoza , US, 2022, 27 Minutes
Anita Mendoza , US, 2022, 27 Minutes
Mexican American fastpitch softball players share their story of playing fastpitch ball. Interviews during the 75th tournament in Newton, Kansas in 2023.
El Cielo es Muy Bonito/ The Sky is Very Pretty
Aracely Mendez, 2022, Mexico, 17 Min
Aracely Mendez, 2022, Mexico, 17 Min
A shelter in southern Mexico offers refuge for migrant and refugee women and girls. In this place, women experience migration from different perspectives and with different consequences in their lives. 'The Sky Is Very Pretty' explores the contrast between the fear of an uncertain future, the desires of a mother and the joy and dreams of her daughter.