Documentary: Five Years North

Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented boy in New York City desperate to bring the American Dream back home to Guatemala. Alone, he struggles to work, study, and evade Judy—the Cuban-American ICE agent who patrols his neighborhood. Find screenings and more info at the official website. Role I was the DP…

UNIVISION: The Frozen Monarchs

Thousands of monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter each year, to find refuge from the cold weather in the country’s pine forests. In March, a rare snowstorm interrupted their sleep as freezing winds blew the butterflies out of their safe colonies, grouped together in the trees, and deposited many of them across the forest…

NYTimes: Immigration raids with I.C.E.

A day in the field with immigration enforcers in California, a state hostile to President Trump’s efforts to step up deportations. I was sent on an early morning ride along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) officers in the Riverside, Calif. area with producer Deborah Acosta to observe how ICE officers operate during raids under the Trump administration….