News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Film’

Documentary Border shows human cost of human smugglers who rape and enslave those seeking a better life in the US as limited enforcement and porous borders enable the tragedy.

Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—The shocking documentary ‘Border’ shows how a porous border and limited enforcement enables human smugglers and drug traffickers to extort, rape, murder and humiliate those seeking a better life in the United States.

Destroying the notion that those who want to secure the border are racist xenophobic bigots, filmmaker Chris Burgard shows how the predominantly Hispanic property owners and law enforcement personnel on US side of the border are fighting a war against drug cartels that move people and drugs across the unforgiving and desolate desert terrain.

Contrary to the talking points of the so-called ‘immigrants rights’ groups, Burgard shows how illegal immigrants are sometimes locked into indentured servitude to the smugglers who’ve delivered them to safe houses in cities like Tucson and Phoenix. The smugglers, commonly known as ‘Coyotes,’ threaten to kill the families of the newly arrived immigrants if they don’t pay extortion money. Sometimes, this servitude can go on for years.

Burgard, a former bull rider and native of Wisconsin, decided to make the documentary after working with a group of laborers, who turned out to be illegal aliens. Shocked by the stories the immigrants told about their journey into the US, Burgard discovered that Coyotes would often sexually assault women in the migrant groups, and display the victim’s undergarments on ‘rape trees’ near the border. This sick display is a competition that human traffickers engage in to one-up each other.

The lack of a solid, border fence and limited enforcement actually contribute to the carnage that these smugglers have wrought. In the sector that Burgard covers in the film, border ranchers routinely talk about finding corpses of illegal immigrants on their vast properties. Some have died at the hands of the Coyotes while others die of dehydration after walking for days in the desert.

The Mexican government may be complicit in helping drug cartels smuggle aliens and terrorists into the US. An example Burgard cites is that para-military groups have violated US sovereignty and held American border patrol agents at gunpoint, preventing them from stopping the smugglers.

DIRECTV, Inc., provider of the nation’s leading satellite television service, is offering DIRECTV Más customers a look back at the golden era of Mexican cinema with the launch today of Cine Nostalgia, a new 24-hour exclusive classic Mexican cinema channel.

Airing on DIRECTV Más, DIRECTV’s Spanish and English-language programming service, Cine Nostalgia provides viewers with the best of Mexican cinema classic films and documentaries depicting life in Mexico during the twentieth century. Cine Nostalgia is now available nationwide on DIRECTV Más channel 424.

Cine Nostalgia offers the largest, most comprehensive library of top-rated films from the golden era of Mexican cinema, with several generations of favorite actors from Mexico and Latin America. The channel’s 24-hour programming showcases a variety of series such as “The Mexican Revolution,” “Comedy Wagon” and “Divas of the Tropics.”

The channel offers 45 different films every week, five new releases in prime time, and various documentary series including “Great Moments of Our Cinema,” “Great Moments of Our History” and “Great Music Moments,” as well as movie star biographies and historical moments of Mexico and the world. Cinema Nostalgia’s video library showcases mythical figures who have become some of the best film stars of several generations in Spanish cinema in Mexico and Latin America.

The channel pays tribute to the actors and actresses most representative of the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s including Cantinflas, Pedro Infante and Maria Flex, the best of nostalgic movies that are now considered classic films. Cine Nostalgia also offers twelve daily programming blocks with different genres of films including dramas, comedies, music and action.

“DIRECTV Más is proud to partner with Cine Nostalgia to offer classic Mexican films & documentaries with exceptional cinematography that today is still considered superior film making,” said John de Armas, vice president, WORLDDIRECT, Inc. “No other Spanish-language content provider can offer this experience. The addition of Cine Nostalgia to DIRECTV’s Spanish and English programming packages gives the U.S. Latino community an exclusive and memorable television experience.”

Cine Nostalgia CEO, Carlos Vasallo said, “Cine Nostalgia is aimed at a specific segment of the market – the viewer who craves nostalgic cinema that creates feelings of longing, joy, sadness or love, led by the memory of people, places, and eras in Mexico that have filled their lives with importance and meaning. Cine Nostalgia is also aimed at the next future generation of viewers that have heard so much about the golden age of Mexican film, but have not had chance to experience it.””