The Migrant Center
of New York, Inc.
Presents
INDIE & FOREIGN FILM FESTIVAL
127 West 31st St. New York, N.Y. 10001
NEW FESTIVAL DATES: OCT. 21-23, 2021
postponed due to Covid-19
UNACCOMPANIED: Alone in America 6:15pm
Dir: Linda Freedman
4 min 20 secs / Narrative Short
Shows what happens when young children appear in immigration proceedings without an a lawyer.
14,000 and Counting: Missing Childhoods 6:20pm Dir: Jacqueline Miller
8 mins / Documentary Short
A short documentary exploring the current issue of family separation, it's causes, implications and long tern effects on the children and families directly affected as well as society as a whole.
Guest Speaker on
Detention Center Protests Introduces the next film
LOCKED IN A BOX: Immigration Detention 6:30pm Dir: David Barnhart
24mins 29 secs / Documentary Short
The stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them.
WHAT HAPPENS TO A DREAM DEFERRED 6:55pm
Dir: Scott Boehm
11 mins 24 secs/ Documentary Short
A short film about two DREAMers who are graduate students at Michigan State University, "What Happens to a Dream Deferred" is an intimate portrait of a day in the life of José Adrián Badillo Carlos and Osvaldo Sandoval after the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.
IN COLORS 7:06pm
Dir:Stephanie Willis
16 mins 12 secs/ Narrative Short
Lauris, a Latina immigrant adjusting to life in an Arizona border town with her new husband Noah, finds her values tested when Julieta, a young, undocumented immigrant on the run, seeks shelter on their property. Will Lauris do what she believes is right and help Julieta? Or will she
Documentary Feature
SEADRIFT 7:22pm
Dir: Tim Tsai
69 mins / Documentary Feature
In 1979, the fatal shooting of a white crabber in a Texas fishing village ignites a maelstrom of hostilities against Vietnamese refugee communities along the Gulf Coast.
