Courtesy of DC Environmental Film Festival..
Event: Saturday, March 16 at 4pm
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Ay Mariposa film team Krista Schlyer, Jenny Nichols and Morgan Heim will discuss and screen excerpts from their documentary work-in-progress.
A panel discussion will follow feat. Krista Schlyer (Director), Marianna Trevino Wright (Director, National Butterfly Center), Jenny Johnson (Policy Advisor, Southern Border Communities Coalition) & Raul García (Senior Legislative Counsel, Earthjustice).
Three lives in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas are upended by plans to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall. As the director of the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has become a leader of wall resistance, a position that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions. Zulema Hernandez has been a dedicated advocate for all migrants, both animal and human. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall. Ay Mariposa documents each characters’ fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty, and the future of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
DCEFF Event Page: https://dceff.org/event/work-progress-ay-mariposa-krista-schlyer/
And here is our film website, in case you want to learn more about the story/project:
https://www.aymariposafilm.com/
