La Lucha Sigue
(The Fight Continues)

Production:
2018 - Present

People gathered around a table filed with craft materials outside.

La Lucha Sigue (The Fight Continues) is a short animated documentary that centers three immigrant rights leaders who work to shut down the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania, one of three prisons nationwide that had detained immigrant children and families.

Behind the Scenes

Crew

Director: Melissa Beatriz
Producer: Shannon Sun-Higginson
Associate Producer: Erika Ramirez
Development Producer: Farrah Rahaman
Cinematographer: Aidan Un
Camera 2 & Lighting: Ty Burdenski

Photo Credits

BTS production photos - Erika Ramirez
Photo 10 & 11 from left to right - courtesy of Doc Society
Additional photos - Melissa Beatriz

Grants & Labs

William Penn Foundation 2025
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

Philadelphia Latino, A 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

Phase 2

The second phase of La Lucha Sigue focused on documenting the grassroots organizing of the Shut Down Berks Coalition during the height of the pandemic, in partnership with ¡Presente! Media.

Phase 1

Watch the first phase of La Lucha Sigue, which focused on social media assets for one of our partner organizations—the Shut Down Berks Coalition.

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