SUNDAY EVENTS

Sunday, March 30, 2008, 5:00 pm, Films, The Borders Trilogy (10 minutes, US 2002, English and Spanish with English subtitles) and Letters from the Other Side (73 minutes, US 2006, English and Spanish with English subtitles), cosponsored by Student Action for Farmworkers.

Borders tells three small stories to illuminate a much larger one: the consequences of a world order in which products freely cross borders that people may not. We are showing two of these:

• the reunion of immigrants and their family at the metal wall separating both countries,
• an x-ray image that shows the way 21st century workers are responding to borders that are open to the products they might produce but not to them.

Borders is a succinct and powerful meditation on the contradictions of U.S. border and trade policy. Directed by Alex Rivera.

Letters from the Other Side interweaves video letters carried across the U.S./Mexico border by the film’s director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico, giving voice to four amazing women who feel the effects of failed immigration and trade policies on a daily basis. Focusing on a side of the immigration story rarely told by the media or touched upon in our national debates, Letters from the Other Side offers a fresh perspective, painting a complex portrait of families torn apart by economics, communities suffering at the hands of globalization, and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it. Director: Heather Courtney

We are showing these movies in advance of our April immigration series that we are cosponsoring with UNC's Institute for the Study of the Americas and other groups. They will present some of the painful personal issues that are integral to migrations.

There will be discussion after the showing of the film.

Please call us at (919) 933-0398 if you want more information. You can also e-mail us.