Screen/Society--Duke Global Health Film Festival--"Clinica de Migrantes" + "Migrantes bitacora de viaje"
Film Screening: "Clinica de Migrantes" (Maxim Pozdorovkin, 2016, 40 min, USA, in English and Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital) / "Clinica de Migrantes," a potent film by Maxim Pozdorovkin, follows the workers and patients of Puentes through months of routine care and growth. Along the way, the film puts a face to the millions of people who exist on the margins of society: people displaced from their homelands, separated from their families, unfamiliar with the customs, unable to obtain health insurance and terrified to come forward to seek medical help. / Trailer: https://vimeo.com/138697647 // "Migrantes bitacora de viaje" (Mauricio Andrada Bilche, 2013, 68 min, Mexico, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital) / This documentary chronicles the journey of Central American (Guatemalan, Honduran, Salvadoran) migrants through Mexico from the eyes of a team of public health researchers. / Panel Speakers:
- Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke CLACS. Chair;
- Maritza Chirinos, El Centro Hispano;
- Laura Villa Torres, UNC, Global Public Health;
- Mauricio Andrada, Filmmaker