Despite sometimes heavy-handed efforts to tug at audience heart-strings, debutant Mexican helmer Tin Dirdamal's "No One" reps a moving portrait of Central American immigrants passing through Mexico to El Norte in search of a better life. Central American subjects interviewed recount appalling tales of beatings and worse encountered en route from gangsters and police, but still cherish fragile hopes for the future. Slickly assembled pic will put a human face on familiar statistics at further fests and liberally inclined cablers, and make Dirdamal a talent to watch. More
"From the center of America erupts Epicentro: an organic literary collective straddling performance, spoken word and testimonial artforms, composed of inter-generational community-minded cultural activists of Central American extraction that write to resurrect memory and inspire action. These Central American bodies in flux and immigrant voices rise from Hollywood bus stops, volcanic ashes, quetzal wings, peripheral MacArthur Park, Mission pupuserias y mas..."
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