Following a successful film festival run—including screening at Sheffield, AFI Docs, and Margaret Mead film festivals—Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana’s acclaimed documentary film Border South will have its U.S. broadcast on Sunday, October 11 at 10pm EDT as part of WORLD Channel’s Doc World, a weekly series which brings international documentaries to U.S. public media audiences, and in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Documenting the migrant routes from southern Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico border over the course of five years, Border South highlights the journey of Nicaraguan migrant Gustavo López Quiroz as he tries to cross from Mexico into the US and the work of U.S. researcher Jason De León, who attempts to document and memorialize the thousands of migrants who disappear along the border trail. Showcasing the humor, ingenuity and resilience of the immigrants, Border South also exposes a migration system that places little value on the lives or deaths of human beings.
Mexican-born filmmaker Paz-Pastrana filmed the migrant routes from southern Mexico to the U.S. Mexico Border over the course of five years. His work intersects contemporary art, political documentary, and visual ethnography to explore themes of “belonging” and “alienation” in immigrant communities. His films have screened worldwide, including at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK, and at DocsMX in Mexico City, and he has receipt grants and support from the Princess Grace Awards, the Tribeca Film Institute, Art Matters, the Jerome Foundation, IFP Filmmaker Labs, Firelight Media, and the Ford Foundation.
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