Screening: ‘BORDERLAND | The Line Within’

Join the Program for Latin America and the Caribbean for film screening and discussion. The final film in this four film series is “BODERLAND | The Line Within.” Filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís will host a post-screening discussion.

This film series is co-sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, the Department of Film and Media Arts (VPA)  and the Department of Television, Radio and Film (Newhouse).

Film Abstract:

“BODERLAND | The Line Within”

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. 

Filmmakers:

Paco de Onís is the producer and Pamela Yates is the director of “BORDERLAND” Paco is the executive director and Pamela is the co-founder of Skylight, a human rights media organization dedicated to strengthening social justice movements through cinematic storytelling and catalyzing networks of artists and activists.

“BORDERLAND” brings the saga of Skylight’s Guatemala trilogy—“When the Mountains Tremble” (1983), “Granito” (2011), and “500 Years” (2017)—full circle. From the impact of U.S. foreign policy that backed brutal regimes leading to the root causes of migration, to the present situation of mass migration from Central America.