{"id":6090,"date":"2022-01-06T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melinatupa.com\/?page_id=6090"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:53:32","slug":"films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melinatupa.com\/index.php\/films\/","title":{"rendered":"Films"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\tSolutions Storytelling Project: Latin America\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\tSolutions Storytelling Project: Latin America is a documentary series spotlighting powerful, solutions-driven stories from across the region. Produced by local filmmakers, each short film explores how individuals and communities are tackling urgent issues\u2014ranging from climate change and indigenous rights to gender equality and human rights\u2014with creativity, resilience, and impact. Through deeply human narratives rooted in place and culture, the series reframes Latin America not only as a region of challenges, but as a wellspring of innovation and hope.\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tSI PUDIERA QUEDARME \/ IF I COULD STAY is a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of two undocumented Latinx mothers, Jeanette and Ingrid, who courageously enter local churches to evade deportation and protect their families. Over five years, they must face the constant threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids while fighting for their legal status and inspiring allies in the predominantly white faith communities. Through an intimate and raw lens, the film showcases the unwavering strength, love, and sacrifice of these mothers, who risk everything to keep their families together in the country they call home. SI PUDIERA QUEDARME \/ IF I COULD STAY is a call to action and a powerful reminder that providing Sanctuary is not just an act of charity, but a crucial act of social justice.\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tThe Highest Standard\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\tThe Highest Standard is a feature documentary film (2023) that expands upon the short film Beacon (2017), following three students as they make a leap across the education gap. \u200b\n\nMeleah, Makai and Exavion are Boston-area public middle-schoolers who by 8th grade rank far below their suburban peers. They take a chance entering Beacon Academy, a 14-month program between middle and high school that aims to help public school students prepare to apply to some of the best private high schools in the country.\n\nWhat is the cost of this incredible transition? As seniors, four years later, these students revisit their life-changing year and reflect on that question.\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tMiss Panama\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\tIn 1980, Gloria Karama\u00f1ites became the first Black woman to be named Miss Panama. Prior to her victory, pageant officials maneuvered to deny her the crown by demanding that she answer an additional obscure legal question. MISS PANAMA is a short documentary exploring Gloria's experiences navigating racism, and the actions taken by the Afro-Panamanian community to rally around their Queen and defend her efforts to represent the country.\nDirected by: Pascale Boucicaut, Lamar Bailey Karama\u00f1ites, David Felix Sutcliffe\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tA La Calle is a firsthand account of the extraordinary efforts of ordinary Venezuelans to reclaim their democracy from the dictatorship of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, whose corrupt and brutal policies have plunged the country into economic ruin. Directed by: Maxx Caicedo and Nelson G. Navarrete\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tTrafficked in America investigates how teenagers from Central America were smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers who promised them jobs and a better life-only to force them to live and work in virtual slavery to pay off their debt. This documentary shines new light on a labor trafficking case in which Guatemalan teens were forced by a third-party contractor to work against their will at Trillium Farms in Ohio, a major egg producer. The investigative team exposes a criminal network that exploited undocumented minors, the companies who profited from their forced labor, and how U.S. government policies and practices helped to deliver some teens directly to their traffickers.\nDirected by: Daffodil Altan, Andr\u00e9s Cediel\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tMore than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most extensive pieces of civil rights legislation, people of color across the United States still are engaged in a battle to protect their right to vote. This short documentary directed by Dawn Porter profiles one dynamic woman working tirelessly on the ground and in the courts to ensure that they are not denied this right.\nDirected by: Dawn Porter\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tThe Search is a 24-minute film that explores Estela de Carlotto\u2019s 37-year search for her long-lost grandchild after her daughter was kidnapped and murdered during the Argentinean 1976-1983 dictatorship.\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\tREAL BOY is an intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates early sobriety, late adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son. Along the way, both mother and son find support in their communities, reminding us that families are not only given, but chosen. Directed by: Shaleece Haas\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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