9th Annual Frontera Film Festival to be held May 4th & 5th
(PRESS RELEASE) By: Gloria Peña – 2018 Frontera Film Festival Community Liaison
La Frontera
It started before we were here, it started before the arrival of our great-grandfather’s hands working the melon farms, the rail roads, the pecan orchards. Their hands picked, plucked, pushed and worked for more money than they were used to, but less then what they deserved. From deep in the south of Mexico and up high from the Sierra Madre and the United States both have given this place the same name, La Frontera
These small towns, where Mexico is right in your back yard, just a glance out your window and you can see the proud eagle with the red white and green dancing in the wind. Just a walk down your block and you have Doña Maria at her corner store selling everything from Gorditas to Menudo every morning without fail. Just a drive to the down town and you’ll find Carlos and his mariachi playing Cielito Lindo to a crowd in hopes to earn enough to buy their next meal or even book their next gig.
THIS IS THE FRONTERA!
The divider and unifier of two countries, El Rio Bravo, belongs to no one, an unforgiving soul taking everything that comes its way, a no man’s land for the daring, or for those in search of the
AMERICAN DREAM.
Unless you’ve lived in La Frontera you’ll never understand or relate to this area drowning in culture surrounded by echoing cries and laughter of the ones before us. But after many years a new generation is arising filled with young minds that see no limit or frontier. This new generation is changing perspective, they see things the way we at La Frontera see things. They see life the way we do, live in our shoes, the shoes of factory workers, gardeners, maids and cooks. The question is how we can show our point of view of life on the border. That is where we now begin to voice our thoughts in the media. We are now beginning to tell our stories in films, documentaries, and news segments so others can begin to see what the Frontera really is.
Now our new generation has a way to showcase their stories through La Frontera Film Festival A festival to share fellowship and compete with others who know your story because you both share the same history.
La Frontera Film Festival – Friday & Saturday – May 4,5, 2018
Friday 6:00 p.m to 11:00 p.m. / Saturday 1:00 p.m to 11:00 p.m.
Raul A. Gonzalez Fine Arts Center- EPISD Student Activity Center
