MOJADOS: THROUGH THE NIGHT
Sunday, January 16, 2005, 8:00 pm, $5
Mojados is an eye-opening documentary filmed over the
course of ten days that follows four men into the desperate world
of illegal immigration. Alongside Bear, Tiger, Handsome, and Old
Man, director Tommy Davis takes a 120 mile cross-desert journey
that has been traveled innumerable times by nameless immigrants
who ? like these four young migrants from Michoacan, Mexico ? all
had the simple, American dream for a better future. Davis brings
to life the often unheard hopes and stories of these migrants as
their dehydrated days evading the U.S. Border Patrol turn into
sub-zero nights filled with barbed wire, brutal storms and the
ever-present confrontation with death that is reality for the tens
of thousands of illegal immigrants who make a similar journey into
the United States every year.