La Lucha Sigue
(The Fight Continues)
Production (2018-Present)
La Lucha Sigue (The Fight Continues) is a short film that centers immigrant rights leaders who are calling for the Berks Detention Center, one of three prisons that detains immigrant children, to close. Activists in the movement explain how the immigration industrial complex has impacted various communities of color, while portraying how to hold elected officials accountable and organize on a local level through art, storytelling, and creative actions.
Phase 1
Watch the first phase of La Lucha Sigue focuses on social media assets for one of our partner organizations.
Phase 2
The second phase of La Lucha Sigue is a short documentary with animation.
Grants & Labs
Art is PHL, 2022
Scribe Video Center - Philadelphia Independent Media Fund, 2022
Independence Public Media Foundation, 2020
Doc Society Good Pitch Local grant, 2019
Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant, 2019
Immigration in Full Frame: Reimagining Migration, The Public VR Lab, 2017
Sundance Institute New Frontier Philadelphia Day Lab intensive, 2017
Pitches & Rough Cut Screening Invitations
PHL Latino Film Festival Works-In-Progress, 2019
Center for Experimental Ethnography launch at UPenn, 2019
Doc Society Good Pitch Local Philadelphia, 2018
Double Exposure Film Festival Pitch + Access, 2018
International Documentary Association: Getting Real '18 - REAL TALKS Round Tables, 2018