CJ Video Library

Creciendo Juntos is developing a library of DVDs for area service providers, churches, academics, businesses, and others interested in issues relating to the Latino population. Below is a list of titles we now have. Those interested in borrowing a DVD or contributing one should contact CJ’s Program Coordinator at cj.cville@gmail.com

I’m American! They’re Not!
There are more than three million American-born kids of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. The kids are Americans citizens, but their parents are not. The Emmy award-winning series Nick News with Linda Ellerbee delves into the lives of children from two Mexican-American kids trapped in a political situation they didn’t cause and can’t fix. Learn how a child feels when s/he is abruptly transported from a life in the US to living in a third world country or forced to live in the US without parents when they are deported.

The Invisible Chapel
For over twenty years a migrant chapel remained invisible to the wealthy residents of a San Diego, CA neighborhood. Every Sunday parish volunteers provided humanitarian assistance and held a church service for over one hundred impoverished agricultural, construction and service industry workers from Mexico. Local neighbors, along with the San Diego Minutemen and a Talk-Radio host clashed with the mostly undocumented immigrant congregation. The ensuing conflict forced the migrants and volunteers out of their sacred space and ultimately caused the demolition of their place of worship.

Dying to Live
A profound look at the human face of the immigrant. It explores who these people are, why they leave their homes and what they face in their journey. Drawing on the insights of Pulitzer Prize winning photographers, theologians, Church and congressional leaders, activists, musicians and the immigrants themselves, this film exposes the places of conflict, pain and hope along the US-Mexico border. It is a reflection on the human struggle for a more dignified life and the search to find God in the midst of that struggle.

The Latino Underground
Many elected officials in Virginia are headed toward a showdown with the federal government over the issue of illegal immigration, while citizens and immigrants are caught in the middle.

Farmingville
The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia. For nearly a year, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini lived and worked in Farmingville, New York, so they could capture first-hand the stories of residents, day laborers and activists on all sides of the debate.

Letters from the Other Side
Video letters carried across the U.S./Mexico border interweave the lives of several women to tell the stories of those left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico.