Mexicanamerican, the debut feature documentary by New York-based filmmaker Eddie Sánchez, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 25th Tribeca Festival.
The film follows Sánchez's attempt to better understand his parents, Lalo and Beby, who emigrated from Mexico to the United States and built a life for their family through years of sacrifice and hard work. Combining contemporary interviews with VHS home videos recorded and mailed across the U.S.-Mexico border between 1993 and 2005, Mexicanamerican traces their journey while examining the emotional and cultural complexities of migration, assimilation, and intergenerational identity.
Through a richly layered collage of family archives and personal testimony, the documentary explores the distance that can emerge between immigrant parents and their American-born children, even as those children benefit from the opportunities their parents worked to create. The result is both an intimate family portrait and a broader reflection on the lasting impact of migration across generations.
A New York City–based filmmaker, writer, producer, editor, cinematographer, and actor, Sánchez is the founder of the independent production label Evelia Filmworks and a contributor to the Los Angeles-based magazine CUSPER. His previous work includes the web series Screwed and music videos for emerging recording artists, while his narrative feature Ivy is currently in development. As an actor, he has appeared in films including Princess Cyd and When Icarus Fell.
The 25th edition of the Tribeca Festival took place June 3-14, 2026 in New York City.
