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Title | Which Way Home

Production Date | 2008

Running time | 94 min

Director | Rebecca Cammisa

Rating | NR

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Schedule

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Description

As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, WHICH WAY HOME shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the U.S.  The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “The Beast.”  Director Rebecca Cammisa (“Sister Helen”) tracks the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family.  These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones.



Additional Information

sponsored by Change for Children



Awards

2008 > The Fulbright New Leaders Group Award for Mutual Understanding 2007 > The Blaufarb Documentary Film Award, NYU 2004 > News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming 2003 > Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Film Award, Directors Guild of America 2002 > Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award by the International Documentary Association > Documentary Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival > Gold Hugo Award for Best Documentary Film Chicago International Film Festival > Jury Prize for Best Documentary Film, Newport Film Festival > Best Documentary Film Award, Nashville Film Festival



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