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A film by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra.
A group of undocumented activists - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young undocumented immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center – on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri try to pull off their heist – a kind of ‘prison break’ in reverse – things don’t go according to plan.
By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with scripted re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, THE INFILTRATORS tells this incredible true story in a boundary-crossing new cinematic language. The Infiltrators premiered in the NEXT Section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and received the NEXT Innovator Award and the Best of NEXT! Audience Award. Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra are 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows and co-founders of Borderlands Cinematic Arts, a project of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, a studio for world-class filmmakers to create new cinematic works that are grounded in the social experience of the “borderlands” and elevated in craft and form.
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