Documenting Impact featuring “Who is Dayani Cristal?” (OVEE screening, featuring clips and live chat)

Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die? And who–or what–is Dayani Cristal?

 

Following a team from the Pima County Morgue in Arizona, director Marc Silver seeks to answer these questions and give this anonymous man an identity. As the forensic investigation unfolds, Mexican actor and activist Gael García Bernal retraces the man’s steps along the migrant trail in Central America. In an effort to understand what it must have felt like to make this journey, Bernal embeds himself among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border. He experiences first-hand the dangers they face and learns of their motivations, hopes and fears. As we travel north, these voices from the other side of the border wall give us a rare insight into the human stories which are so often ignored in the immigration debate.

 

Through a partnership with OVEE, an online cinematic social visual experience created by ITVS, we’ll screen the trailer, watch several clips, and conduct an interview with filmmaker Marc Silver, Robin Reineke–one of the subjects of the film–and impact producer Lina Srivastava. We’ll discuss the film’s impact and how it has shifted the political conversation around immigration.

 

We hope you’ll join us for this thought-provoking online event and participate in our live conversation.

 

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