Filmmaker Gisela Sanders Alcantara, whose most recent film, New Children/New York, documents the lives of Latino immigrants in New York City, will visit Hamilton on Thursday, March 31, as part of Cesar Chavez Commemorative Week events. Alcantara will host a workshop on the making of New Children/New York at 4:30 p.m., and there will be a screening of the film at 7 p.m. Both events will take place in the KJ Bradford Auditorium and are free and open to the public.
New Children/New York is a documentary film that follows three coming-of-age Latino immigrants studying filmmaking in New York City. The film is set in a community workshop in the low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn, and provides a fresh and poignant look at the problems—social alienation, broken families, economic hardships, and discrimination—faced by young immigrants. The documentary features excerpts from the films created by the adolescents, each of whom exhibits a unique voice and style of filmmaking.
Alcantara’s visit is sponsored by the Dean of Students Office, Student Activities Office, Community Opportunity and Outreach Project, Diversity and Social Justice Project, Theater Department, Bon Appetit, Sigma Lambda Upsilon, HAVOC and BLSU.
