Past Event
Saturday, February 2, 2019, 9 p.m.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: The Unafraid
1649 El Prado, San Diego, 92101
Three Georgia DACA students — young, undocumented, and more dauntingly assured than even the title implies — learn the hard way that pursuing the American dream has a way of wresting logic toward nightmarish conclusions. With their butterfly backpacks securely in place, it’s hard to imagine a less imposing band of budding activists than the ones directors/producers/ cinematographers Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney spent four years on the trail with. Families that have fought long and hard to stick together are suddenly faced with the reality of separation when it becomes time for their fledglings to leave the nest. Once they do, they’re not accepted as Americans (let alone southerners), and only one of our trio makes it through to college on the first pass. Another fights hard for in-state tuition for all citizens. And the look on the face of Student #3’s mother indicates supreme disapproval for the path her child ultimately chooses to follow. — Scott Marks