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Las Abogadas : attorneys on the front lines of the migrant crisis / Boom Boom Media Group ; directed by Victoria Bruce ; produced by Careen Shannon, Laura Seltzer-Duny, Kristin Schrecker, Eugenio Maillefert Chabert.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Amharic
- Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--United States--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Illegal immigration--United States.
- Illegal immigration.
- Noncitizens--United States.
- Noncitizens.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Immigrants--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- documentary film.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Nonfiction films
- Internet videos
- Documentary films
- Educational films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Internet videos.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (92 minutes)) : sound, color
- Production:
- [California, United States] : Boom Boom Media Group, [2022]
- Distribution:
- [Harriman, NY] : New Day Films, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English, French, Spanish, Amharic, and Cameroonian Pidgin with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- Las Abogadas follows a group of women immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of 5,000 desperate migrants, to convincing border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to counseling African migrants stuck in Tijuana, to giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to migrant families desperate to reach American soil -- we watch our characters' surreal journeys to try and help.From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of 5,000 desperate migrants, to convincing border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to counseling African migrants stuck in Tijuana, to giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to migrant families desperate to reach American soil -- we watch our characters' surreal journeys to try and help.
- Credits:
- Camera, Nancy Bonilla ; editor, Simon Efokoa ; composer, Dan Radlauer.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on May 14, 2024).
- Awareness Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2022.
- LA Independent Women's Film Awards, Best Documentary, 2022.
- Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2022.
- Queen City Film Festival, Best Social Justice Documentary, 2022.
- Portland Film Festival, Best of Women's Voices, 2022.
- 6th International Women Filmmakers Festival, Camera Eye International Mention Award, 2022.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1428750995
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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