Gregory Nava is a Mexican filmmaker who was born on April 10, 1949, in San Diego California. As a former UCLA alumni, Nava has produced several racially and culturally charged films that often break new grounds such as, El Norte, Mi Familia, and Bordertown. Thus, Nava dedicates his filmmaking career to give his audience a distinct point of view which is the central thread of his films and that which encompasses the Latino culture, experience, and their unjust treatment in America as oppressed minorities;
Introduction: Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. He attempts the dangerous journey eight times before
The Sleep Dealer begins with an unusual image of a human being who has slowly been transformed into an alien body. This alien body is not a strange green-skinned visitor from another planet, it is the body of a young Mexican man named Memo who has been forced to ‘upgrade’ his physical body in order to work in an advanced factory on the US/Mexico border. In a close up we see a shot of Memo, who has been connected to a machine while his arms and his back are covered in sockets and cables. Ensnared
The movie “El Norte “is the one of the most successful and influential movies to represent the immigrants state. Director Gregory Nava’s gives the story of Guatemalan siblings Rosa and Enrique’s journey in a melodramatic way. The movie is divided to three main parts, Guatemala, Mexico and United States. The story of Rosa and Enrique’s shows us community, the power of language and culture in different countries. The story begins in Guatemala; it shows the happy family life which Rosa and Enrique
been about the borders in Central America, Mexico, and the United States. For class we read Ted Conover’s Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America’s Illegal Aliens, Tracey Andrews’ Negotiating survival: undocumented Mexican immigrant women in the Pacific Northwest, and Gordon Hanson’s Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States. We have also seen the film El Norte directed by Gregory Nava, the documentary De Nadie directed by Tin Dirdamal, and another documentary called Mojados
El Norte was released in 1983 and set in the middle of Guatemalan civil war. It was directed by Gregory Nava and produced by Anna Thomas. The major theme of this movie is the struggle of young siblings to find a better life in another country as immigrants. The movie is divided into three parts: when the two siblings, Enrique and Rosa flee from their homeland because of a raged war, their attempts to cross Mexico illegally, and arrived in the United States of America, where most people think it’s
would offer. Family’s full of frustration and no hope turn to the journey of going to “el Norte”. Hoping to have a better life and help their family improve their social status. Reading Enrique’s Journey emphasized the crime and the need of basic necessities of people in Latin America Countries. The author Sonia Nazario, describes his families’ story and how he struggled to make it to the U.S. People for different reasons make the journey to travel to the U.S. It ranges from finding a love one to wanting
crossing as well as to explicate their meanings. Sin Nombre. Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga. 2009. DVD. This film offers an overview how migrant journey can be harsh and dangerous as well as challenging and exciting. It also underlines various reasons why people have to migrate. In addition, this particular film shows how border crossing is problematics. El Norte. Dir. Gregory Nava. 1983.
“If you move, I’ll kill you. I’ll break you in two” (Nazario 87). Enrique’s Journey, a nonfiction book by Sonia Nazario, painstakingly follows the trek of a young teenage boy’s treacherous journey to the United States from Honduras. At the tender age of five, a horrified and confused Enrique watched his mother Lourdes walk away from him and onto El Norte, The North. Eleven years later Sonia Nazario, a project reporter for the Los Angeles Times, traces each bitter step of Enrique’s gruesome and long
According to the movie The Bronze Screen, I understand that the Spanish people started acting in US cinema and specifically in Hollywood from early 20th century. The Spanish cinema started with black and while movie. At the first they act with just Spanish representative, because they want control the American cinema and precisely Hollywood. The Spanish movie was in the first representation without the voice. After that they added the voice. The Mexican movies was increased in Hollywood cinemas because