El Inmigrante
David Eckenrode, John Sheedy, & John Eckenrode
U.S./Mexico • 2005 • 90mins
10.00 at The Stevenson Theatre
Featured at 2006 American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
This film explores the American and Mexican border crisis, illuminated by the story of Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. This event becomes the point of departure for a multi-layered border tale, one that’s especially relevant in the face of our nation’s current immigration dispute. The cast of this film is diverse, including Eusebio’s family in Mexico, the community of Brackettville, Texas, the horseback border patrol in El Paso, and other migrants en route to the United States. Their perspectives come together to create a moving political
