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Lamento Con Alas: Documenting Unidentified Deaths Along the Texas-Mexico Border

🎞️ Movie 12 min --
2015

Each year, thousands of immigrants die on their journey into the United States through Texas, and only a few Americans are doing anything to help. Dr. Lori Baker is a forensic scientist from Baylor University who works with Ranch Director Lavoyger Durham to exhume, identify, and repatriate the remains of immigrants who have died crossing due to dehydration in the desert, most of whom have been found after shoddy burials on the Texas-Mexico border. The music in this piece is composed by el Salvadoran composer Carlos Colon, a composer and cultural promoter, specializing in music that is both academically serious and ecclesiastically valuable. His recent projects lie at the intersection of social justice and religious change.

Cast

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Pilar Timpane
Cinematographer