POV presents

THE INFILTRATORS
A film by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra
(USA, 2019, 95 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)

Winner of the Next Innovator and Audience Awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Cinema Tropical Award for Best U.S. Latinx Film, 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. By 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.

Premieres Monday, October 5, 10pm EDT on PBS’ POV
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Available to stream through Wednesday, November 4 on PBS.org.