Director Juan Carlos Frey will be on hand to screen and discuss his documentary about Mexican immigrants living in San Diego. Donations accepted.
When Juan Carlos Frey came upon the network of Mexican migrants living in McGonigle Canyon, in San Diego, they were, effectively, invisible. Although Frey had grown up in the city, he?d only heard of their existence--some had been in the canyon for 20, even 30 years--through a journalist friend. Undocumented, they were off the city?s radar, just a part of the brown blur glimpsed by San Diego?s affluent residents through the windows of their SUVs. But at the same time, as if by magic, the city?s lawns were kept in line, flowers were made to shine and babies coo, buildings rose--and fell--and fresh produce was set on people?s tables. The ?invisible Mexicans? lived in stealth, camouflaged under the canopy of brush that covers the canyon. Their homes, only as high as the overhanging cover and some just large enough to enclose a bed, their meager belongings, a nightstand perhaps, were cobbled together of scrap wood. With his crew, Frey spent a year in the canyon, filming. ?The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon? is an intimate, spare film, shot almost entirely within the canyon, dramatizing the sense of isolation, the increasing squalor and the contrast between its aridity and the surrounding abundance.
Location: Joyce Beers Community Center
The address for Joyce Beers CC is on Cleveland St, but the actual site is on Vermont St (in the Uptown Shopping Center) two blocks north of University in Hillcrest. The center is sandwiched between the Aladdin and Terra restaurants.
For more information please call: 619-528-8383
or visit: prcsd.org
For more information about The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon see invisiblemexicans.com
When Juan Carlos Frey came upon the network of Mexican migrants living in McGonigle Canyon, in San Diego, they were, effectively, invisible. Although Frey had grown up in the city, he?d only heard of their existence--some had been in the canyon for 20, even 30 years--through a journalist friend. Undocumented, they were off the city?s radar, just a part of the brown blur glimpsed by San Diego?s affluent residents through the windows of their SUVs. But at the same time, as if by magic, the city?s lawns were kept in line, flowers were made to shine and babies coo, buildings rose--and fell--and fresh produce was set on people?s tables. The ?invisible Mexicans? lived in stealth, camouflaged under the canopy of brush that covers the canyon. Their homes, only as high as the overhanging cover and some just large enough to enclose a bed, their meager belongings, a nightstand perhaps, were cobbled together of scrap wood. With his crew, Frey spent a year in the canyon, filming. ?The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon? is an intimate, spare film, shot almost entirely within the canyon, dramatizing the sense of isolation, the increasing squalor and the contrast between its aridity and the surrounding abundance.
Location: Joyce Beers Community Center
The address for Joyce Beers CC is on Cleveland St, but the actual site is on Vermont St (in the Uptown Shopping Center) two blocks north of University in Hillcrest. The center is sandwiched between the Aladdin and Terra restaurants.
For more information please call: 619-528-8383
or visit: prcsd.org
For more information about The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon see invisiblemexicans.com
