• The film focuses on stories of migrant families.

Tijuana, Baja California.- The animated feature film “Home is Somewhere Else”, produced by Mariana Marín Romero from Tijuana, and directed by Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos will have its international premiere at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (FIFA), This was reported by Abelardo Vázquez Ramos, Director of Creative Industries of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation.

Later, it will participate in the selection of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), where its premiere will take place in Mexico, added the official. The 100% animated documentary tells three stories of migrant families who share their fears, hopes and emotions about what it means to live as undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Jasmine, an 11-year-old American girl, lives in fear that her undocumented parents will be deported; the sisters Evelyn and Elizabeth -a US citizen and an undocumented immigrant respectively- live far away due to their different immigration statuses; and José Eduardo, who grew up in Utah and was deported to Mexico at age 23 and has since, through his poetry, become an activist and advocate for his generation of Mexican returnees and deportees. Through the voices and real testimonies of our protagonists, the film speaks to the complexities and challenges facing undocumented youth and their families today.

According to what was reported by Javier Espinoza, Baja Film Commissioner, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (FIFA) was created in 1960, and takes place at the beginning of June in the city of Annecy, France. Although it was originally a biennial festival, it became annual in 1998. The festival includes competition sections between animated films (of various techniques: cartoons, stop motion, etc.) classified in different categories: feature films, short films, films custom (produced to be broadcast on television or for advertising purposes), student films, and films produced for the Internet.

The executive producer of "Home is Somewhere Else", Mariana Marín, commented that in the second half of 2022 the documentary will be screened in some of the most important border cities of Mexico and the United States (San Diego/Tijuana, Tucson/Nogales, El Paso/Ciudad Juárez) in schools, universities and community centers. "The performances in schools will be accompanied by workshops on narrative practices, including one on spoken word that will be given by José Eduardo Aguilar "El Deportee", to creatively explore issues such as deportation, mobility and migration," he said. spoken word that will be given by José Eduardo Aguilar "El Deportee", to creatively explore issues such as deportation, mobility and migration," she said.