As presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Joe Biden scapegoat and attack immigrants on the campaign trail, stoking racist and xenophobic fears for votes, we speak to the director of a groundbreaking new film, unseen, that aims to reframe the narrative. Using experimental cinematography to promote accessibility for blind and low-vision audiences, unseen follows Pedro, who is blind and undocumented, as he works toward a degree in social work. Director Set Hernandez, themself an undocumented immigrant and a co-founder of the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, discusses the film’s uplifting of the “undocumented and disabled perspective,” in opposition to political narratives that exclude and dehumanize immigrant communities.
This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
Democracy Now! | Radio Free (2024-03-19T12:48:27+00:00) “Unseen”: New Film Profiles a Blind, Undocumented Social Work Student, Humanizing Disabled Migrants. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2024/03/19/unseen-new-film-profiles-a-blind-undocumented-social-work-student-humanizing-disabled-migrants-2/
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