When I traveled to Arizona with Ishita to create Checkpoint Nation, I wrote: It was the first time I had experienced the overwhelming size of the desert sky. The sunset was magnificent, and the endless stretch of cacti and desert rocks were lit up with the last pink moments of twilight. But the sunset’s beauty [...]

December 15, 2011 by Dana Variano | Tags: Arizona, border deaths, crisis, Derechos Humanos, desert, documentary, DRUM, homepage, human rights, human rights crisis, immigrants, immigration, International Migrants Day, Mexico, migrants, No More Deaths, U.S. Mexico Border, Vamos Unidos, video | Comments Off

From our friends at The Opportunity Agenda. A panel of Hollywood notables took the stage with immigration advocates at The Paley Center for Media earlier this week, to discuss the challenges in telling accurate, compelling immigrant stories in movies and television. The event featured conversations with Bruce Evans, Senior Vice President of Drama Programming, NBC; [...]

May 7, 2010 by ishita | Tags: Alan Jenkins, Bee Vang, Bruce Evans, CHIRLA, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Emanuel Levy, Gran Torino, hollywood, immigrants, Jesse Garcia, Leon Ichasa, Ligiah Villalobos, Nick Schenk, Paley Center for Media, Qunicearnera, The Opportunity Agenda, Under the Same Moon | Comments Off

Not only will we celebrate the Irish this St. Patrick’s Day, but rather all races, genders and cultures!

March 17, 2010 by Annie | Tags: b-listed, because we found it, breakthrough, Dublin St. Patrick's Day, immigrants, immigration, Irish, Saint Patrick's Day, Saint Patty's Day, St. Pat's for All Parade, St. Patrick's Day, St. Patty's Day | Comments Off

We just got word of a great website, http://www.trail2010.org/ organized by immigration groups Presente.org, FLIC and SWER that will allow you to support young people, Gaby, Carlos, Felipe, and Juan that are marching on the Trail of Dreams to urge leaders to fix our failed immigration system. About their journey from the trail2010 website: On January [...]

January 20, 2010 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, b-the change, FLIC, immigrants, immigration, Presente.org, SWER, Trail of Dreams, Trail2010 | Comments Off

Woohoo! Two Woohoo’s in one week! (This is the first one). We just heard that an amazing high school that we worked with to create our immigration video game ICED – I Can End Deportation – The Newcomers High School, in Queens NY, placed #6 on the nation’s top high school list! The students were [...]

December 16, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough beat, I Can End Deportation, iced, immigrants, immigration, Long Island City, Newcomers High School, Queens, video game | 1 Comment »

Not only are we boggled at the anger towards immigrants. Eva Longoria is too. At a recent event in LA Longoria said, “this is a country of immigrants… so it kind of shocks me that people have such a vile reaction to immigrants when they provide a huge amount of services to our country.” Longoria [...]

September 18, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Eva Longoria, hate, immigrants, immigration, intolerance | Comments Off

We told you about one screening of film The Least of These back in July, but the film’s that good, so we’re telling you about another one. But before that here’s what it’s about: The Least of These, looks at T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a former medium-security prison that is now used as a [...]

September 11, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: ACLU, family detention, film, immigrants, immigration, Open Society Institute, t. don hutto, the least of these | Comments Off

As media makers working on immigration, we’re always trying to get the word out. But we came across a film that’s getting a lot of attention right now on immigrant children who have come to the U.S. alone.  The film, Which Way Home, by Rebecca Cammisa and airing Aug 24th on HBO, follows children that [...]

August 20, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-activists, film, HBO, immigrants, immigration, Rebecca Cammisa, Which Way Home | Comments Off

Long Island Wins is getting people to take action against the hate going on toward immigrants in their comunity. Last Saturday a group of young white men attacked a Hispanic man while shouting racial slurs. Now, this already happened there once, so one has to ask, just what is going on? It’s time to flip [...]

August 19, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: b-the change, immigrants, immigration, Long Island, Long Island Wins, Stop the Hate | Comments Off

The groundbreaking 7-hour miniseries, The New Americans, first shown in 2004, aired again this Sunday July 5th on PBS’ Global Voices and will continue until late August this summer. The weekly summer series, created by Kartemquin Films, the makers of Hoop Dreams, follows the personal journeys of a diverse group of immigrants and refugees for [...]

July 7, 2009 by katherine | Tags: autism, global voices, Hoop Dreams, immigrants, immigration, kartemquin films, MacArthur Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions, Mexican laborer, ogoni refugees, pbs, stem cell research, the new americans, Vietnam War | Comments Off