La Lucha Sigue
(The Fight Continues)

People gathered around a table filed with craft materials outside.

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

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