Filmography
Border Documentaries
Saul Landau, Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (2000) a film depicting the inequities resulting from an unregulated globalized capitalism. The two Mexicos are one as seen in the region of the Zapatistas in Chiapas and that of the laborers in the industrialized northern parts of Mexico in Ciudad Juarez.
Lourdes Portillo, Señorita Extraviada (2002), an effort by the director to explore the rise of femicides in Ciudad Juarez in the late 1990.
Heather Courtney, Los Trabajadores (2003), explores the experience of undocumented day laborers in Austin, Texas.
Anne Lewis, Morristown In the Air and Sun (2007). An exchange of video-cartas between workers in Pennsylvania whose jobs were outsourced under NAFTA to Mexico, and the maquiladora workers who took the jobs.
________ (2019). Asylum, Terror, and the Future. A video podcast comprised of six short documentary films by Anne Lewis, narrated by and based on case stories of Jennifer Harbury.
Samuel George, The Crossroads: Inside U.S.-Mexico Trade (2017). Documentary filmed in Oaxaca, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico City, Texas, and DC, that looks at the effects of NAFTA on Mexican agriculture, and industrial workers in the U.S. and Mexico.
Art 21, Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 10: “Borderlands.” This program, which aired on PBS in October 2020, highlights the work of five contemporary visual artists working on the U.S.-Mexico border.