The United States border is not just a geographic location.
The border is everywhere.
It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.
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PRAISE FOR BORDERLAND
“As a human rights activist and a Brown immigrant woman in the US, I cannot recommend this film more highly. Pamela Yates and her amazing team skillfully capture the poignant human stories and the bureaucratic Kafkaesque complexities that are at the heart of our current dystopian immigration system. Go watch it and be inspired into action!”
This is a timely, topical film that sheds important light on ‘the war on immigrants’ in the U.S., and its political reasons but through a deeply moving, human, and powerful story–told by the people at the heart of it and in the transparent and beautiful way we expect from Skylight and Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís. These are the authentic (counter-) narratives we need much more of, urgently.
This documentary is one of the most honest and factual representations of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is a must-see movie for those who want to understand what is happening at the border, told from directly affected individuals.
Not only have [Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís] captured really important images of the realities of the desert and the border, but their openness has served as an education like none other for me. I always asked myself what non-extractive filmmaking could look like, and through the creation of this film I witnessed a masterclass of how it’s done. [Borderland] is coming to a city near you! Please check it out.
Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis of Skylight Pictures have made an urgent and compelling documentary called Borderland: The Line Within. The film traces, both literally and figuratively, how U.S. immigration enforcement agencies have created a “border industrial complex,” a system that exploits immigrants’ status vulnerabilities to turn into corporate profit. This is an essential watch during this election season (and beyond).
BORDERLAND is more than a film, it’s a movement for justice.
Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis of Skylight Pictures have made an urgent and compelling documentary… [t]he film traces, both literally and figuratively, how U.S. immigration enforcement agencies have created a “border industrial complex,” a system that exploits immigrants’ status vulnerabilities to turn into corporate profit. This is an essential watch during this election season (and beyond).
The reception to the documentary is overwhelming, especially among recently arrived immigrants, who saw themselves portrayed in a dignified way in the film.
Woven into the personal narratives, the data visualizations — and the scholars’ explanation of why they matter — make the message land even harder… allowing “Borderland” to explore the crisis as both individual and systemic. The issue is bigger than any one person. “Borderland” comes at it from more than one direction, and is more effective for it.
