Borders | No Borders Documentary 2

Part of our Borders | No Borders competition. Sign up to meet the filmmakers at the Borders | No Borders Virtual Filmmaker Mixer on Saturday, November 21st at 12pm CST. Supported by Independent Media Arts.
Mi Sueno Americano

Mi Sueno Americano follows the filmmaker's grandfather retelling his journey immigrating to the United States and becoming a business owner.
Country, Year | United States, 2020 |
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Director | Joe Cardoza |
Producer | Joe Cardoza |
Language | English |
Runtime | 8 MINS, 24 SECS |
Genre | Short |
Event Type | Compilation |
Inauguration

What does it mean to look back on a failed assassination? Why does one decide to forget a radical past? Inauguration looks at the fragmented history of the Young China Association (少年学社). Interweaving temporal connections with faint chances of synchronous events between two disparate events at the margins of Chinese revolutionary history: a failed assassination and an impossible trip. The film narrates a forecast of the past, wherein it renders visible the processes of erasure, remembrance, and archival anchors of the early overseas Chinese revolutionary politics and its aftermaths.
Country, Year | United States, 2020 |
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Director | Peng Zuqiang |
Producer | Peng Zuqiang |
Language | English |
Runtime | 13 MINS, 33 SECS |
Genre | Short |
Event Type | Compilation |
El Gigante de Puebla

Alberto Tlahuetl, singer-songwriter, musician from the Xonaca district and creator of "Grupo soñador", invites us to know the dedication and effort he makes to fulfill his dream. We will observe its trajectory through the stages that it treads to make known the cumbia sonidera, a musical genre born in Puebla, Mexico.
Country, Year | Mexico, 2019 |
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Director | Lucero Tlahueti |
Producer | Silvia Rosales |
Language | Spanish |
Runtime | 13 MINS, 42 SECS |
Genre | Short |
Event Type | Compilation |
California Creole: Zydeco & Regional Respect

A walk through Richmond, CA with Andre Thierry, Grammy nominated musician as he talks about his family migration from Louisiana to the Bay Area, and how Zydeco shaped his life in California.
Country, Year | United States, 2020 |
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Director | Abby Berendt Lavoi & Jeremey Lavoi |
Cast | Andre Thierry |
Producer | Abby Berendt Lavoi & Jeremey Lavoi |
Language | English |
Runtime | 5 MINS, 27 SECS |
Genre | Short |
Event Type | Compilation |
Puppet Regime

Puppet Regime depicts troubling and under-reported accounts of political repression faced by activists and artists organizing in Oklahoma—fed-snatching, police retaliation, and right-wing violence.
Country, Year | United States, 2020 |
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Director | Ghazal Ghazi |
Producer | J. Preston Witt |
Language | English |
Runtime | 40 MINS, SECS |
Genre | Short |
Event Type | Compilation |