Film Screening: Cary Fukunaga's "Sin Nombre" (2009)

Film Screening: Cary Fukunaga's "Sin Nombre" (2009)
Date
Wed November 12th 2014, 7:00pm
Location
Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113

Speaker(s): Samuel Gibson

This road movie is filmed on the back of the "beast," the trains that carry migrants from Central America across Mexico towards the US border. The film weaves the stories of two protagonists: Sayra, a young Honduran girl trying to reach her family in New Jersey, and a young gang member recruited to rob passengers riding north on top of the freight cars. Romance counterbalances horror, risk, and devastation in the extraordinary debut feature from the director of HBO's True Detective.