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A Struggle Beyond Borders

A Struggle Beyond Borders

Educator/Mentor: Shuriece Kornegay Documents the story of Elvira and her son as they navigate immigration laws and workers rights in the city of Chicago.

Credits

Youth producers

Jesus Carlin

Average rating

* * * * *
(2.75)

Organization

Street-Level Youth Media

Creative Commons info

Share it? yes

Remix it? no

Use commercially? no

Creative Commons license

Reviews

While my heart is with the makers of this film, there are some basic technical and writing problems. First of all, some background would be invaluable to set the stage. Second, we need to know more about the people in the film. Third, shooting against the sun is good for silhouettes only. Fourth, red subtitles are invisible. Needs to be re-edited!

Ted Folke  |  June 16, 2007

A powerful story and a great choice of subjects/characters. I was left wanting to see and hear more of Elvira's story. I believe that by seeing Elvira in her everyday living space I would have really felt the experience and the struggle of being an immigrant. Some of the text was hard to see but that was probably because of the video compression which is understandable. But besides that good work. Hope to see more in the future.

Lendl Tellington  |  June 04, 2007

great documentary, text was hard to read at times, this most have been a hard topic to compress into a short doc you did a great job.

Bre Blaesing  |  May 31, 2007

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