Houston Indymedia Presents: Films Beyond Borders

Event Description:

Wednesday, January 16 Houston Indymedia Presents: Films Beyond Borders

Houston Indymedia is proud to continue our series of progressive documentary
films at Rice Cinema this January the 16th at 8pm, with 5 short films on
struggles for human dignity and freedom of movement. From Indiana, California
and Texas, the experiences of immigrant youth, anti-border activists and
detained migrants tell stories that can break through the systems of exclusion
and give a glimpse of our common humanity. The films include:

Loz Invenzivlez/Our Invincible Youth
30 minutes, 2007, FIRME productions, English and Spanish, USA
Elementary, high school and college students from Indianapolis, Indiana have
created a documentary, Loz Invenzivlez/Our Invincible Youth, exploring the
educational dreams, realities, and sometimes nightmares of Latin@ children who
immigrated to Indianapolis.

Hutto: America's Family Prison
15 minutes, 2007, Matthew Gossage & Lily Keber, English and Spanish, USA
"Hutto: America's Family Prison," details the prison-like conditions at the T.
Don Hutto "residential facility" in Taylor, TX. About 500 immigrants and
asylum-seekers from around the world, more than half of them children, are
detained at the prison. This film explores this troubling dynamic of
incarcerating families of immigrants and asylum seekers from the eyes of
lawyers, human rights activists, and formerly detained families.

The Wall and the River
9 minutes, 2007, Arizona Indymedia & Indymedia Newsreal, English, USA
The US Border Wall being built in Arizona is about to cut off the San Pedro
Riparian Natural Corridor, the only river on the Arizona-Mexico border that
flows all year long. The plans of the Department of Homeland Security to cut
off this river will have permanent impacts on the wildlife and water in this
very fragile ecosystem, and will be a limited deterent for people trying to
cross. This production for Indymedia Newsreal looks at the battle to save this
ecological area from the current hysteria over immigration.

And More!
We will be screening a number of short video pieces on the No Border Camp that
took place in Calexico/Mexicali in late 2007, and hopefully a piece on the
Houston Sin Fronteras Action of June 2007

Rice Cinema is located on Rice University Campus at Entrance #8, University and
Stockton Ave. (Map:http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2007/11/61876.php). Full
descriptions of the films at HIMC.org

Event Sponsor:
Houston Indymedia

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Houston Indymedia

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Event Website:
houston.indymedia.org/news/2008/01/62517.php

Event Fee:
Suggested Donation $5-10