Virtual New Cinema: The Infiltrators
Thu, May 07
|Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
A documentary-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center—on purpose.
Time & Location
May 07, 2020, 7:00 PM – May 21, 2020, 11:59 PM
Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
About the event
Tickets are $12. Watch: https://theinfiltrators.vhx.tv/checkout/epsilon-spires-presents-the-infiltrators/purchase
Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse ‘prison break,’ things don’t go according to plan.
The Infiltrators, from Latinx directors Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, is a vital piece of hybrid cinema that shines light into the obscure realm of privately-operated immigration detention facilities. By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with scripted re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, the film tells this incredible true story using a boundary-crossing new cinematic language.
"There is an audacity, an unrestrained boldness, to both the events depicted onscreen and the way in which they are portrayed in the movie itself” -Los Angeles Times
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