Film Screening:

Clinica de Migrantes 

(Maxim Pozdorovkin, 2016, 40 min, USA, in English and Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)

-- Introduced by Mauricio Andrada. Preceded by a panel discussion

Puentes de Salud is a volunteer-run clinic that provides free medical care to undocumented immigrants in south Philadelphia. Here, doctors and nurses work for free to serve people who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Clinica de Migrantes, a potent film by Maxim Pozdorovkin, follows the workers and patients of Puentes through months of routine care and growth. Along the way, the film puts a face to the millions of people who exist on the margins of society: people displaced from their homelands, separated from their families, unfamiliar with the customs, unable to obtain health insurance and terrified to come forward to seek medical help.

Along with revealing these patient stories, Clinica de Migrantes is also a look at the heroic doctors and nurses who work pro bono to ensure these people receive care, offering a deeply moving look at the limitless potential of humanity.

-- Jury Award for Best Short at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina (2015)!

“With extraordinary access and moving vérité footage, Clinica de Migrantes tells the powerful story of what happens when undocumented immigrants are denied basic human rights. The film takes us on an emotional journey with the staff and patients at a volunteer-run clinic where undocumented immigrants receive medical care, and addresses a critical issue in a way that is so human and real that we unanimously agreed it must be awarded this year’s Best Short Award.” – Jury of FFDFF

Migrantes bitacora de viaje 

(Mauricio Andrada Bilche, 2013, 68 min, Mexico, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital) 

This documentary chronicles the journey of Central American (Guatemalan, Honduran, Salvadoran) migrants through Mexico from the eyes of a team of public health researchers. The film underlines the multiple health implications the dangerous journey implies for the people in movement. From skin conditions, trauma, bodily injures, malnutrition to HIV and other sexual transmitted diseases. The documentary underlies the lack of institutional presence in relation to public health and features the several “casas de migrantes;” ngo’s and informal operations that treat and give protection to the hundreds of thousand people on the move.

Panel Speakers:

- Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke CLACS. Chair;

- Maritza Chirinos, El Centro Hispano;

- Laura Villa Torres, UNC, Global Public Health;

- Mauricio Andrada, Filmmaker

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Duke Global Health Institute (GHI), the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Health Humanities Lab at FHI, and the Program in the Arts of Moving Image (AMI).