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She’s worked with Congress and Stacey Abrams. Now this Dreamer is telling her own story!
As Biden solidifies DACA, this documentary debut explores identity, family and homeland for the undocumented. During the 12th anniversary month of DACA, Director, Filmmaker and advocate Samantha Ramirez-Herrera’s documentary short “EL Regreso” made its world premiere at the Dances with Films Film Festival on June 26th at The Chinese Theater. With an Advance Parole document allowing the DACA recipient to temporarily leave the country, Ramirez-Herrara returns to Mexico for the first time since she left when she was 7 years old. During Dia de los Muertos, she searches for the family she lost and how to release the burden of the failed American Dream she’s carried for her parents since they crossed the border. “I’m here to talk to the dead,” Ramirez-Herrera says while visiting her grandparents’ tombs. “There’s things that just can’t be said to the living.” It is written and directed By Samantha Ramirez-Herrera and produced By Sam Bathrick.
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Among DWF: LA’s lineup of 232 films, including 38 narrative features, 17 documentary features, 25 television and streaming pilots, and 152 short films (101 narrative and 20 documentaries, 13 KIdz section, 18 Downbeat/Music), are an impressive number of films (117!) making world, international, North American, or U.S. premieres. That number includes 24 narrative features, 10 documentary features, 69 narrative shorts, 22 documentary shorts (including Downbeat), and 15 pilots which will have world premiere screenings at Dances With Films.
The Dances With Films Festival is a Star-Studded 11 days, with Both A-List stars, and several recognizable faces and names that include: “Norita” that is Executive produced by Jane Fonda, Russell Goldman’s Burn Out, which is executive produced by Jamie Lee Curtis and stars Tommie Earl Jenkins, Eli Vidis Newman’s Concrete, which stars four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, Kestrin Pantera’s Dr. No Means No, which stars comedy duo The Sklar Brothers, Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers), and Breeda Wool (The Walking Dead), Mike Harris’ Mecánica, which stars Haley Joel Osment, and Olivia Sandoval(Fargo), and Danny Farber’s Thoughts and Prayers, which is executive produced by Amy Poehler, “Tim Travers & The Time Travelers Paradox” Stars: Samuel Dunning, Felicia Day, Danny Trejo, and Keith David, Mindy Cohn the Co-Star on “The Facts of Life,” and finally: the World Premiere of “Max Dagan” which stars: Rob Morrow, Zachary Gordon, Michael Madsen, Rob Brownstein, Lindsey Dresbach, Lisa Roumain, and Comedians and Actors Jeff Ross and Jay Mohr!
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