SHORTS PROGRAM #2: EL SUEÑO AMERICANO

• Expanding Sanctuary
  Directed by Kristal Sotomayor
  Documentary, 20 mins, USA, 2023
  An immigrant mother emerges as a community leader during the historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expanding Sanctuary tells a rarely told story about a Latinx immigrant community’s successful journey to change legislation and protect families. 

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• No Se Ve Desde Acá
  Directed by Enrique Pedraza Botero
  Experimental, 19 mins, USA, 2024
  A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.

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• The Seltzer Factory
  Directed by Paloma Valenzuela
  Documentary, 44 mins, USA, 2024
  From Dominican-American, Boston-based filmmaker and screenwriter, Paloma Valenzuela, “The Seltzer Factory” is a short documentary film that delves into the story of her maternal family in Marghita, Hungary. In the film she explores her Jewish identity as a bi-racial Latina Jewish-American as she pieces together the connecting events that shaped her family’s story from Marghita to Oradea to Cleveland to the Dominican Republic to Boston.
   

Q&A with the filmmakers