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Docs About Immigration

  • Actors Maynor Alvarado and Manuel Uriza, from Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarra's 'The Infiltrators.' Uriza portrays Claudio Rojas, who was deported in 2019. Courtesy of Alex Rivera.
    January 29, 2021

    Power and Visibility: The Unfinished Story of 'The Infiltrators'

    On the night of November 14, 2018, I was at LAX when my phone rang. Programmer Dilcia Barrera was calling to say that The Infiltrators would premiere
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  • January 23, 2020

    Doc Star of the Month: Yusuf Abdurahman, 'Accept the Call'

    For many years Yusuf Abdurahman, the charismatic protagonist of Eunice Lau's Accept the Call , seemed to be living the American Dream. A refugee who
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  • 'El Curato Reino.' Courtesy of Alex Lora and Adan Aliga.
    September 4, 2019

    The Feedback: Alex Lora and Adan Aliaga's 'The Fourth Kingdom'

    Since IDA's DocuClub was relaunched in 2016 as a forum for sharing and soliciting feedback about works-in-progress, many DocuClub alums have since
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  • May 13, 2019

    'Harvest Season': A Year in the Life of Immigrant Workers in Wine Country

    Bernardo Ruiz has always been interested in stories about borderlands—“In particular, the love/hate relationship between the US and Mexico,” he says
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  • January 12, 2018

    Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini's 'Well-Founded Fear'

    In 2000, I was a young filmmaker on my way to my first Sundance Film Festival. If I didn't already know everything there was to know about filmmaking
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  • February 12, 2015

    'White Earth' Takes a Meditative Look at a Boom Town

    Just as California beckoned Americans westward in the mid-19th century and then the Great Depression, with the promise of a better, more prosperous
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  • July 1, 2009

    Love 2.0: YouTube Romance Inspires Feature Doc

    RJ Cutler, Steve Kearney, Chris Adams team up on Internet love story.
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