I strongly suggest that you take a look at David Riker's "La Ciudad" (USA, 1998, which is essentially a collection of longish shorts focused on Latin@s in NY City. It's usually a winner with my students in both film and Latin@ studies courses, especially the story of the lost Puebla immigrant. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168589/ Luis Figueroa Trinity College Hartford, CT [log in to unmask] On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Leo Aristimuno wrote: > Dear Colleagues > I am looking for films (especially shorts) informed by/about the > experiences of recent immigrants. More specifically, I'm looking > for films where the urban context plays a dominant role in shaping > these experiences. > > Next term, I am teaching an advanced UG video production course > where my students will work in collaboration with an urban > journalism class to explore the stories of Blooomfield Avenue, a > major thoroughfare in North Newark populated by a large, relatively > new Latino community. In the course of the term, my students will > produce fictional shorts inspired by stories and events from the > community and the journalism students will write reports from the > same. > > The films I seek will serve as examples of works where the urban > experience provides a context for stories of immigration and will > be shown to students early in the semester. I would be particularly > interested in films distributed online. > > For those interested, the works will be presented though a web site > next summer. > > Many thanks in advance > > Leo Aristimuno > Assistant Professor > Video Production and Media Studies > Rutgers University - Newark > [log in to unmask] > > --------------------------------- > Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. > See how. > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org