BULLS AND SAINTS
After 20 years of living in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home. Little do they know, it will be the most difficult journey of their lives. Set between the backdrop of the rodeo rings of North Carolina and the spellbinding Mexican hometown they long for, Bulls and Saints is a love story of reverse migration, rebellion, and redemption.
This feature length documentary was broadcast nationwide on POV/PBS in the fall of 2023, and toured across the South as part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers in 2024. The film was funded by Firelight Media, LPB, Alternate Roots and the Southern Documentary Fund.
¡FIESTA!QuinceANERA
Life for a Latinx immigrant family in the New South can be challenging and sometimes terrifying, but thankfully, there’s always a fiesta to take you through the night. ¡Fiesta! Quinceañera is a feature documentary broadcast on REEL SOUTH, based on the ITVS digital series, that weaves the lives of three Latina girls and a seasoned drag artist as they celebrate their quinceañera, a complex and colorful rite of passage.
This Taco Truck Kills Fascists
New Orleans-based performance activist José Torres-Tama has a dream to create a revolutionary Taco Truck Theater with a simple message of “no guacamole for immigrant haters”. This Taco Truck Kills Fascists weaves two narratives: the classic “against all odds” story of an immigrant artist of color bringing the voices of radical Black performers and undocumented workers out of the shadows with the story of a father struggling to raise his two boys into political consciousness in the “Age of Trump”. Winner of the Jury Award for Best Louisiana Feature at the New Orleans Film Festival.