Free Film Screening at UCLA: Women's Voices: Bienvenido Mr. Kaita / Los eternos indocumentados / Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes - Incl. Reception and Q&A with directors

Central Americans as well as interviews with organizers leading the struggle on the ground in Central America, this film captures the stories of Central American refugees and explores the root causes of forced migration. In the words of the late Salvadoran poet, Roque Dalton, as he says in his Poema de Amor, this film is about los Eternos Indocumentados (the Eternally Undocumented).
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyjL7I2DyQ
 
3:30pm: Yolanda Cruz, Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes (Mexico, 2009)  
 The secluded, mountainous town of Teococuilco is virtually a ghost town. In search of work, 2500 of the town's previous inhabitants have left for other parts of Mexico and the United States. These migrant workers endured torturous days of travel through a barren desert to cross the border and work for years without seeing their loved ones. To honor the mostly overlooked lives of these migrant workers, the renowned Mexican artist Alejandro Santiago spent several years and close to a million dollars to fashion individual clay figures representing the workers. Alejandro hired a team of workers to aid him in the creation of this massive project, and through the sculptures, they honor the migrants who have left Teococuilco.
 Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXAYUKBSv78

5:00pm:  Albert Albacete (Director), Helena Medina (Screenplay), Bienvenido Mister Kaita (Spain, 2006)
 Saggi Kaita, his wife and three children (born in Spain), along with his brother, Mahamadou, travel home to their village, Diabugu, Gambia, for the first time since they emigrated to Spain over ten years ago. The reason for the journey is the wedding of Mahamadou and the girl (now a woman) to whom he had become engaged before emigrating.
Watch trailer: https://player.vimeo.com/video/26927389

7:00pm: Closing Reception
 **Ticketing for reservations will begin at 6:30 PM. Reservations are ONLY VALID UNTIL 7:00 PM. After 7:00 PM, the standby line will be admitted on a first come, first served basis.**

 Parking information
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How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
collado83@g.ucla.edu

Event co-sponsored by: UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dean’s Discretionary Fund- UCLA Humanities Division; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Funds- UCLA Humanities Division; Melnitz Movies; the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies; UCLA Campus Programs Committee; Center for Brazilian Studies; Anderson School of Management, Center for Global Management; Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; Luskin School of Public Affairs; Latin American Institute; Center for Southern Cone Studies; Program for Caribbean Studies; Department of Gender Studies; César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Department of Germanic Languages; the LGBTQ Studies Program, HLGSA, the Los Tigres del Norte Fund at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.