Description |
1 online resource (67 minutes) |
Summary |
Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train. They call themselves Las Patronas, and their mission goes beyond humanitarian assistance, symbolizing a resistance against a system that criminalizes migrants |
Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed July 14, 2020) |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016 |
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Based on La Patrona, the short film by Javier García in 2009 |
Credits |
Editor, Carlos Cárdenas Aguilar ; photography, Javier Garcia [and 4 others] |
Performer |
Norma Romero Vazquéz, Julia Ramírez, Guadalupe González, Lorena Aguilar, Bernarda Romero Vazquéz, Teresa Aguilar, Mariela Nájera Romero, Karina Aguilar Romero, Rosa Romero Vazquéz, Antonia Romero Vazquéz, Leonila Vazquéz Alvisar |
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In Spanish with English subtitles |
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ACAMPADOC, Best Documentary, Panama, 2017 |
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Audience Award, Best Documentary, DocsPuebla, 2018 |
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IberRutas Award, Global Migration Film Festival, International Organization for Migration, Buenos Aires, 2018 |
Subject |
Women -- Mexico -- Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave)
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Humanitarian assistance -- Mexico -- Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave)
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Food -- Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Food -- Social aspects
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Humanitarian assistance
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Women
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SUBJECT |
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Subject |
Mexico
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Mexico -- Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave)
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Genre/Form |
Documentary films
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Feature films
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Torre García, Javier de la, director, director of photography
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Martínez, Iliana, producer
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Uruñuela, Ana Paula, producer
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Lara, Afra Mejía, screenwriter
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Aguilar, Carlos Cárdenas, editor of moving image work
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SacBé Producciones, production company
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Third World Newsreel (Firm), publisher, film distributor.
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