ILEGALES, Iris MediaWorks’ latest feature film, premiered at HBO’s NYILFF at the end of July with two packed screenings and our actors were stopped repeatedly throughout the week by festival-goers who were moved or inspired by the film. We’d like to thank everybody at the festival who made such a great showcase possible.
ILEGALES has garnered some great press so far, with our actors appearing on CNN Español [SPANISH], Despierta America [SPANISH], the Associated Press, and blogs like Progressive Pulse, among other places.
We’re proud to announce that ILEGALES has also gotten its first review! Jenna Sauers at Jezebel reviewed ILEGALES, and we couldn’t be happier to share it with you! Below are a few select quotes and a link to the article itself.
“ILEGALES is a stunning indie film about immigration, and the ways in which we need each other…With a talented ensemble cast, Ilegales — like Traffic — takes a view of the trade in drugs and people that is both panoramic and minutely specific. ILEGALES…isn’t about Mexican immigration into the United States as a political cause so much as it is about the lived experiences of these characters and the legal and social institutions they are forced to confront. The connections the characters have with one another at first seem abstract — kind of like the tenuous connection most white Americans feel with the immigrant labor that grows most of the food that reaches our tables and often as not buses the plates we eat it off. But a variety of Altman-esque links are revealed as the story progresses, and each revelation of interdependency raises the stakes. ILEGALES doesn’t have a U.S. distributor yet; but a more timely — and sincerely told — film could hardly be imagined.”
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