Border Film Week at USD

The Trans-Border Institute presents the Ninth Annual Border Film Week. Every year TBI brings a new lineup of documentary films to campus, giving students, faculty, and the broader community the chance to explore the border and the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico from a variety of perspectives and to meet some leading filmmakers. This year the films emphasize migration, violence, and human rights. A series of short films will precede the featured documentary, and panel discussions with the filmmakers and faculty experts follow each screening.

Film Schedule:
Tuesday 24 February

• Tubar?o,
Leo Tabosa
An audiovisual take on the difficulties a foreigner must endure to adjust to his new life.
13 min

• La Tierra de los Adioses,
Stefani Saintonge, 2014
The Lopez family is split by a border. A mother and her three daughters stay in a rural Mexican town, where the lack of job opportunities have forced 50% of residents (80% of men) to migrate to the U.S. A father, a son and an uncle work construction in Richmond, Virginia dreaming about home but traumatized by the journey they endured to the other side. La Tierra de los Adioses tells a story mirrored throughout Central America about torn families, a culture of migration and the policies that keep the cycle spinning.
28 min

Wednesday 25 February

• [Death penalty documentary short film],Scott Langley, 2012
Captured on film, Warden Marvin Polk, of North Carolina's Central Prison, narrates the preparation and final hours before an execution in Raleigh, where the state execution facilities are located. Warden Polk takes members of the press through the prison, detailing hour-by-hour the preparation, and carrying out, of a 2:00 am execution.
The short film includes candid discussion by the warden about the role of doctors in lethal injections as well as his own feelings on overseeing the executions.
10 min

• Hasta el fin de los d?as/To the End of Reckoning,
Mauricio Bidault, 2014
At the end of 2013 the so called War Against Crime in Mexico had left a body count of more than 100,000 and a generalized distrusting climate in Mexican society. How do the men and women that keep fighting this violence every day from the trenches of science live? Hasta el fin de los d?as tells through the eyes of workers in the Instituto Jalisciense de Ciencias Forenses (Jalisco Institute of Forensic Science) about this struggle in one of the most violent areas of the country.
87 min

Thursday 26 February

• Despu?s de la Z,
Rodrigo Cervantes, 2013
Alberto, a teenager, drives for a group of Sicarios (Hired Assassins) from the Zeta Cartel in Mexico, transporting a mysterious cargo. Over a night's journey he will touch the depths of the violence that permeates contemporary Mexico.
14 min

• Reportero
Bernardo Ruiz, 2012
Reportero follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for members of the media. In Mexico, more than 50 journalists have been slain or have vanished since December 2006, when President Felipe Calder?n came to power and launched a government offensive against the country?s powerful drug cartels and organized crime. As the drug war intensifies and the risks to journalists become greater, will the free press be silenced?
60 min

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
Universtity of San Diego
5998 Alcal? Park
San Diego, 92110

Dates and times
Tuesday, February 24 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Wednesday, February 25 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, February 26 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

For more information, please visit: www.sandiego.edu