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I m afraid. I hope to God they won t catch and deport me. Optimist Films has released a trailer for the documentary
Five Years North, which originally premiered at last year s Full Frame Film Festival. It also played at last year s San Antonio Film Festival; the film opens first at the Film Forum cinema in NYC at the end of this month.
Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived alone in New York City. He struggles to work, study, and evade Judy - the Cuban-American ICE officer patrolling his neighborhood. The directors say they didn’t set out to make an immigration film, but after meeting Luis while working on another project, and followed him as he made his way up to NYC. It also took a while for them to get approval to film ICE. And the result is this moving film showing both sides.
Analysis By
Jennifer Doherty | February 26, 2021, 8:36 PM EST
For immigration attorney Lizbeth Mateo, her clients cases are personal the outcomes could affect her own removal proceedings someday. (Photo courtesy of Lizbeth Mateo/Optimist Films)
Before immigration attorney Lizbeth Mateo accompanied her client, Edith Espinal, into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement s office in Westerville, Ohio, on Feb. 18, she made a routine call to her assistant back in California.
Like her client, Mateo lacks legal documents to reside in the U.S., and she knew that either of them could be detained upon arrival a possibility that could affect her work on other cases. Espinal was scared preparing for the encounter, she told Law360 through an interpreter, but had faith in her attorney.