THE INFILTRATORS | DIR. CRISTINA IBARRA
ART DIRECTOR
Sundance Film 2019 Winner of NEXT: Audience Award
THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young undocumented immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center – on purpose.
The protagonists are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when the activists try to pull off their heist – a kind of ‘prison break’ in reverse – things don’t go according to plan.
By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with scripted re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, THE INFILTRATORS tells this incredible true story in a boundary-crossing new cinematic language.
The Hollywood Reporter said of the multiple Sundance award-winning film “rather than feeling like homework, watching it is a thrill.”
The full film is available here.
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“A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.”
DIR. CRISTINA IBARRA | ALEX RIVERA
WRITER: CRISTINA IBARRA | ALEX RIVERA | ALDO VELASCO
STARRING
MOHAMMAD ABDOLLAHI | MAYNO ALVARADO | ROMAN ARABIA
“To see someone transform the perceived liability of being an undocumented detainee into a source of power and strength, truly and deeply owning their identity, is inspiring and moving.”
“Ibarra and Rivera won accolades for the way they challenge the documentary form, deftly weaving together footage of the activists’ work and reenactments of the detainees in a way that keeps you in the middle of the action.
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