The United States border is not just a geographic line. The border is everywhere, a looming threat for every undocumented family at risk of being captured, incarcerated, and deported. Borderland | The Line Within is an urgent critique of the border-industrial complex, exposing the profitable business of immigration and its human costs, and how its oppressive structure is deeply entwined in American politics and society. The film was produced over a period of five years with the assistance of three experimental digital humanists and painstaking research and web scraping efforts. Weaving together the stories of immigrants building networks and mobilizing communities, the film highlights a dynamic and growing movement in the shadow of the border-industrial complex, fighting for the human rights of all.
Director Pamela Yates will join moderator Giovanni Batz (Chicana and Chicano Studies UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Borderland | The Line Within.