SUN Nov. 12th, 2pm – Copa Bar and Grill, 217 Congress St.

Panel Discussion Follows

LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE interweaves video letters carried across the U.S.-Mexico border by the film’s director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico.

Director Heather Courtney interacts with her subjects through her unobtrusive camera, providing an intimate look at the lives of the people most affected by today’s failed immigration and trade policies. Her use of video letters provides a way for these women to communicate with both loved ones and strangers on the other side of the border, and illustrates an unjust truth – as an American she can carry these video letters back and forth across a border that these women are not legally allowed to cross.

Part of the Women and Fair Trade event by AFSC:
http://www.afsc.org/austin/festival/films.htm