Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase

The Philadelphia Latino Film Festival and PhillyCAM present the Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase. The program will also air on PhillyCAM TV [alternatively accessible via Xfinity 66/966 | Fios TV 29/30 | Roku | Apple TV] on Sundays at 7:30pm EST throughout the month of May.

Grown Without Water

As the sun breaks over a purple mountain, a woman wakes from a dream in the middle of the West Texas desert, just outside of El Paso. She’s wrapped in soft sheets, in the bed the women who came before her slept in. There, in the middle of the dirt, she dreamed she was drowning…

Philadelphia Premiere

Xochitl Rodriguez
USA // 2020
Experimental Documentary
English
10 minutes

YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH ABINÍ Good Morning

Haunted by her father’s death from a global virus that has ravaged her native Navajo nation, and now under constant surveillance from an unknown military, Crystal must learn to embrace her visions, memories and dreams in order to both survive and re-discover what may be left of the world.

Philadelphia Premiere

Morningstar Angeline
USA // 2020
Narrative
English & Dineh
12 min

Oda a Los Frijoles

A literary and visual rendition to beans, this experimental short merges a cooking recipe with archival footage of immigrants and fieldworkers.

Philadelphia Premiere

Karolina Esqueda
Mexico // 2020
Documentary
Spanish
4 minutes

Jamaica & Tamarindo

The Jamaica flower in Tamarind are iconic ingredients Mexico, but their story comes from a place much further away. In Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro tradition in the heart of Mexico, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, and identity that goes beyond the color of one’s skin.

Philadelphia Premiere

Ebony Bailey
Mexico // 2020
Documentary
Spanish
19 minutes

Cenicero De Dios

Lorena and her mother live in Ciudad Juárez, a border with El Paso, Tx. U.S. Lorena lives waiting for her father’s return, while her mother is obsessed with knowing something about him. In Lorena’s memory there remains a monument, a history and hope.

Philadelphia Premiere

Celina Galicia
Mexico // 2020
Narrative
Spanish
14 minutes

Los Amuletos Migran

In July 1980, nineteen year old Dora Rodríguez fled her native El Salvador and crossed the US/Mexico border. In Los Amuletos Migran, we accompany Dora while she looks through migrants’ personal belongings, which were seized and discarded by Ajo Border Patrol.

Philadelphia Premiere

Amada Tourella
USA & El Salvador // 2020
Documentary
Spanish
8 minutes

JOSIE

The documentary short film, JOSIE, is a true account of a woman living on the US/Mexico border and her quest to find retribution while becoming an undefeated martial artist. The film is narrated by her own daughter adding a more intimate perspective into her mothers story.

International Premiere

Jackie Barragan
USA // 2020
Documentary
English
14 minutes