Everyone Their Grain of Sand
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Cast & Crew
Beth Bird
Beth Bird
Beth Bird
Beth Bird
Libby Horne
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Synopsis
A small town's struggle for survival in the face of corporate greed powerfully demonstrates the downside of globalization and U.S.-Mexico border economics. Since 1988, Mexican community Maclovio Rojas has been fighting for education, electricity, and water owed them by their government, which would rather force thousands of residents off land that developers are drooling over. Community leaders are arrested, lingering in prison without due process, while their families and friends make every effort to obtain justice. Beth Bird's heartbreaking and intimate feature debut balances these hardships with glimpses of goodness--an elementary school graduation, holiday celebrations--to remind us what they're fighting for.
Director
Beth Bird
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the $50,000 Target Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Shown at Brooklyn International Film Festival (Documentry) June 2-11, 2006.
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color
dialogue Spanish
subtitled English
