What The Pier Gave Us (feature)
A five part poetic essay about immigrants who fish at a pier in New York. WHAT THE PIER GAVE US, lyrically captures the life of a pier in a year and through the seasons.
With support from Sundance Institute, Catapult Film Fund, BAC, and AXS Film fund.
Directed by: Laura X Moya Guerrero
Producers: Maria Santos & Jin Yoo-Kim.
In production
What The Pier Gave Us (short)
Many immigrants spend their evenings fishing on an undisclosed pier in New York City. In What the Pier Gave Us, a Mexican fisherman’s ordinary day becomes a metaphor for the brutal beauty of the immigration experience in the US.
Muchos inmigrantes pasan su atardecer pescando en un muelle en la ciudad de Nueva York. En el cortometraje “Lo que nos dio el Muelle” el día ordinario de un pescador mexicano se convierte en una metáfora de la brutal belleza de la experiencia migratoria en Estados Unidos.
With support from NYU Tisch The Alan Landsburg Documentary Post-Production Award and Gotham Sound. Awarded the The Lora Hays Award for Documentary Editing. In post-production. Nominated for The Roberto Guerra Documentary Fund 2015
DIR/EDITED/DP BY: Laura X Moya Guerrero
Past Screenings:
-Rutgers University: “Queer Immigration in American Culture.” course 2023.
-Mimesis Film Festival 2022
-Rooftop Film Festival 2022
-New Filmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival 2022
-Philadelphia Latino Film Festival 2022
-Soft-Firm’s Drive Thru public installation 2022, by Downtown Brooklyn, Van Alen Institute, and Two Trees Management Co.
-Centro Corona’s Un Colectivo Recuerda Community Showcase 2021
-BAMcinemaFEST 2021
Greyfields
An abandoned mall in Ohio was revived back to life by over twenty churches that rent the space. The mall faces possible demolition in face of a vibrant, predominantly Black Gospel community that is working hard to keep it alive.
In post-production.
DIR & PRODUCER: Laura X Moya Guerrero & Nicolas Cadena
DP/EDITOR: Luna X Moya
SOUND RECORDER: Nicolas Cadena & Kristina Rathjen
Downtown DC Resilient
Documentary style branded content for the Downtown DC Business Improvement District. The arc of the video is the sudden change in our lives due to the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter uprising, and the resilience of the Downtown DC community.
DIR/PRODUCER/DP/EDITOR: Laura X Moya
The Rights of Butterflies
Katya is an undocumented student who shares her struggles in pursuing higher education in Maryland.
The film was followed with a film tour impact campaign. The film screened at various high schools and universities in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. Discussions were led by CASA De Maryland immigrant rights organizers who encouraged people to vote for the DREAM ACT. The DREAM ACT successfully passed the following year. Selected for the AFI SILVERDOCS FILM Festival, youth selection, and was featured on the WASHINGTON POST. 25min.
DIR/PRODUCER: Luna X Moya
EDITORS/DP: Sandrine Emambu, Binyam Hundito, Zaid Jameel
Alan Marroquin, Laurel Gwizdak, Luna X Moya
Gandhi Brigade Productions
This film was sponsored by:
The Chino Cienega Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
The Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
The Takoma Foundation
The Mead Family Foundation
I Got Heart
The clip is the 10 minute version
SCREENINGS:
-CASA DE MARYLAND 2012
-Montgomery Blair High School 2012
-George Washington University 2012
-Silver Spring’s Civic Center 2012
-American University 2012
-Benelovent Media Festival 2012
-Bethesda Film Festival 2012
-AFI DOCS, youth selection 2012