Teaching which way home

Although Mexican companies prohibit riders on freight trains, thousands board them anyway, making the rule impossible to enforce. Among the children featured in Which Way Home : Fito, year-old Honduran whose mother abandoned him when he was very young, lives with his impoverished grandmother, who has a job making cigars.

He is traveling to the U. Yurico, a year-old Mexican who ran away from his mother, has lived on the streets of Tapachula, Chiapas since age seven. Yurico proclaims that his life has been spent begging and sleeping on streets, thieving and abusing drugs; sometimes he makes money by washing buses at the city depot. Yurico wants a life free of drugs and violence, and is traveling to the U.

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File previews. Gina Telaroli, TakePart. All photographs are protected by copyright. For permission to use, and high resolution press stills, please contact Bullfrog Films. All rights reserved. Receive occasional notice of our new releases and special offers. Which Way Home The personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.

Mudd Production in association with Documentress Films. Reviews "This extraordinary film brings viewers into the perilous, poetic, and inspiring world of several boys who dream of a better life, and risk life and limb to attain it The combination of gorgeous cinematography, urgent social commentary, and sympathetic human stories make this a winning film.

If a library can only purchase one film about immigration, this is the perfect choice. As someone who teaches immigration courses but also does research precisely on the issue of family separation and the migration of children, I have seen many films about how migrants reach the United States.

But I've never seen anything like Which Way Home. It's easily the best documentary of its kind I've seen The film does not dehumanize or essentialize these children. Rather, the humane and sensitive lens seems to aim to present a realistic picture that can inform many about the human drama that these young immigrants and their families live But we don't only get to hear the children's stories in their own voices, we also learn their parents' views, and get a good glimpse of the context within which the kids live and within which they make decisions to migrate Analyze the use of music in the film.

Did it enhance the story that the visual images and the narration were trying to tell? How would you have used music in this movie? What was the structure of the movie? Did there appear to be any manipulation in the way in which the scenes were presented or did the presentation appear to be straightforward?

How did the editing of the film advance the narrative and help the director get his point across? If someone asked you whether you would recommend this film, how would you respond? Fully explain your reasons. If the filmmakers were to ask you how the film could be improved, what would you tell them?