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Pictures of the Border Wall Shoot
Posted Aug 3, 11:51 pm
I was so honored to be filming the danzantes and their obligacion/gracias on land that is on the banks of the Rio Grande. I hope all their good energy and prayers will be answered. A judge already passed a decision that the Department of Homeland Security will not build a wall on the property of the University of Texas at Brownsville. Sounds like the prayers are working.
The last time I was working in the Rio Grande Valley on a film project was 1994 and I was just out of film school. Most of us were all UT grads, , Fernando Cano (The Producer), Cristina Ibarra, Susan Jasso, James Borrego and Lizzie Martinez. The film featured Jesse Borrego and Lizzie, during her pre-casting director for John Sayles and motherhood days. The writer/director of the film Painflower, Fred Gacia was from South Texas and very proud of being from there. I didn’t get it at the time, I was a from a very big border city and not used to the small town feel of such a huge portion of the Texas Border.
After working on this project with these fearless women, and learning more about our peoples history and their continued resistance to the stealing of the land, the racism, lack of funding in their communities, the substandard representation by our Senators and politicians, the spiritual significance of this land; I get it. As the Comadrita Missy and Brown Bear told us so eloquently at the ceremony, “We are Nican Tlaca: people of this land.”
