Border South
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2017
Logline
Mexico now deports more immigrants than the United States. melds ethnography and cinema-verité to explore the harsh environment and brutal journey of undocumented immigrants from Central America crossing through Mexico towards the United States.
Raúl Paz Pastrana
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, CINEMATOGRAPHER
Raúl is a Mexican-Immigrant filmmaker whose cinematic style melds visual anthropology with cinema verité. His films, which focus on indigenous and immigrant rights, have screened all over the world. Border South is Raúl’s first feature film.
Jason De Leon
PRODUCER, ADVISOR
Jason is a Mexican-American Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He currently directs the Undocumented Migration Project, a long-term study of clandestine border crossing that combines ethnographic, archaeological, and forensic approaches. Recently he was awarded the prestigious 2016 Margaret Mead Award for his book The Land of Open Graves.
Ellen Knechel
CO-PRODUCER, EDITOR
Ellen is a Spanish speaking filmmaker and editor. She works on independent documentary films. Most recently Ellen assisted Lindsay Utz in cutting Quest: The Sound and the Fury. Her work often focuses on stories from Latin America and North-South relations.