A mini-documentary from JaZzy MaE that covers the Gran Marcha Immigrant March in Los Angeles on May 1, 2006. Sights and sounds of the occasion are combined with music and spoken word to form a sort of 'documentary poem'. There are no interviews. Instead, we allow the signs participants carry to do the talking. The issues facing American citizens and the U.S. government around immigration are not easy to resolve. I don't know if 'another legalization' is the answer and 4-1/2 minutes isn't even enough time to raise the questions.
¿¡SI SE PUEDE!? simply documents an event, revealing that those who marched are not 'aliens', but diverse human beings with needs, with families, with hope in their hearts and voices ready to be heard.
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SCREENINGS:6th Annual Short Attention Span Film Festival (official site):• November, 2007, The Art Institute of Boston (specific date to be announced). • April 26th, 2007, Palm Theatre, San Luis Obispo. • March 21, 2007, 7pm PDT, airing daily for two weeks, on "The Mark Hopkins Show" — a cable access program in Torrance, CA. Mark will also take it to shows or screenings in the South Bay, Santa Monica and Jackson, Mississippi. • November 9, 2006, Cine Sin Fin - 12th Annual Chicano Film Festival in Los Angeles.
BURRITO INCOGNITO
by Richard McCaskill
Capable hands make meals without compromise 
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But I can relate to the idea 'better to die on your to feet than to live on your knees'. To me, the true independence represented by the United States means respecting the individual's right to live with dignity and integrity.
Burrito incognito