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The Infiltrators

The Infiltrators is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center - on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse ‘prison break,’ things don’t go according to plan. Weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, The Infiltrators tells an incredible and thrilling true story in a genre-defying new cinematic language.

Country, Year United States, 2019
DirectorAlex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra
WriterAlex Rivera and Aldo Velasco
CastMaynor Alvarado, Mohammad Abdollahi, Roman Arabia, and Eddie Martinez
ProducerCristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera, Darren Dean, and Daniel J. Chalfen
LanguageEnglish
Runtime95 MINS, SECS
GenreDocumentary