Posts in 'Immigrant Voices'

To support Presente Media's Next Generation Women Latinx Storytellers Fellowship, focused on advocating for important social issues in partnership with local organizations.

To support the production and impact production of "Eso No Tiene Nombre," a one-woman show celebrating the oral history of Latina lesbian elders.

To follow up on the success of the “Images in Quarantine” issue of Motivos magazine and highlight the amazing photography produced by students as the country is emerging from the COVID-19 quarantine.

This "Untilted" documentary explores the culinary culture of immigrant farm workers that comprise the backbone of the US food system and power the Vermont dairy farm industry. The farmers' lack of access to transportation, coupled with the presence of ICE in their communities and the fear of deportation, means that accessing ingredients to prepare traditional meals is difficult or impossible. The film also follows the story of an underground network of women who bring popular Central and South American ingredients to rural dairy farms throughout the state, connecting farmworkers back to homemade meals and to one another.

To create a community-owned multimedia archive that highlights arts/culture work for social change by Latinx communities in Philadelphia.

To encourage intergenerational storytelling to amplify the refugee and immigrant Cambodian & Southeast Asian American community, as well as to archive the community’s history and immigration story.

For signal improvement planning and community programming at RadioCATA.

$30,000 will go towards the final cut of the film as well as film festival expenses. The remaining $1,570 will go towards BlackStar’s fiscal sponsor fees.

A dance documentary about three Filipino-Americans visiting the Philippines: one grew up in the Philippines, one returns annually to see family, and one has never been to the motherland. The documentary captures their process as they return home, faced with the reality of post colonialism, and awakening to their own romantic notions of indigeneity. The three collaborate as film artists behind and in front of the lens.

"La Guagua 47" is a community cultural production that has engaged hundreds of Philadelphia artists, volunteers and community members in its creation. It is based on a story that was made into a song about a life-changing bus ride: Ritmo Lab - La Guagua 47. The film tells a universal story of migration, belonging, and finding home in one another: a young Latinx migrant arrives in Philadelphia feeling very alone. One day she discovers the iconic SEPTA bus 47 and embarks on a journey that changes her life. The film introduces the significance of SEPTA’s bus 47 to the thriving and inspiring culture of Philadelphia’s Latinx community. It reimagines the 47 bus as a central character in helping communities find joy and belonging and demonstrates how public transportation supports society, prosperity, and multiculturalism.