Production Team

YARIMAR BONILLA

Writer and Producer

Yarimar Bonilla is Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also a prominent public intellectual and a leading voice on Caribbean and Latin-X politics. She writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día titled “En Vaivén,” is a regular contributor to publications such as The Washington Post, The Nation, Jacobin, and The New Yorker, and a frequent guest on National Public Radio and news programs such as Democracy Now!.

To learn more about Yarimar Bonilla, check out her page.

JUAN C. DÁVILA

Director, Producer, and Director of Photography

Juan C. Dávila is a documentary filmmaker and multi-media journalist. His work focuses on environmentalism, social movements and globalization. Dávila has directed two feature documentary films: Compañeros de lucha (2012) and Vieques: una batalla inconclusa (2016). His documentary filmography also includes the short-documentary film, La generación del estanbai (2016), which won “Best National Short Film” at Festival Internacional de Cine Fine Arts in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He recently directed a TV pilot for a documentary series called The Response, which explores how people rise together in the aftermath of climate disasters. Dávila currently works as a correspondent for Democracy Now!

To learn more about Juan C. Dávila’s work, you can check out his page.

SAMUEL GOIRE

Co-Director of Photography

Samuel Goire Báez is a technician in sound, light, camera, and scenery, in the film, television and theater industry. His mission in art, within the areas of photography, drawing, sound art and sculpture, is to transmit a message of peace and consciousness through his productions. Samuel has worked as an audio systems technician in the Puerto Rican company Comco Audio since 2004 and in novelas such as: "Dueña y Señora" and "Don Amor," a production of Channel 13 in Chile. Currently, he is a stage and lights technician in the Center of Fine Arts of Santurce, the Francisco Arriví Theater, the Victoria Espinosa Theater and the Center of Fine Arts of Caguas, where the program "Idol Puerto Rico" and many other works and concerts were produced. Currently, he works in the company Here and Now Studios, the largest studio in Puerto Rico and where numerous productions take place.

To see more of Samuel Goire’s photography, check out his page.

LAURA BUSTILLOS

Co-Director of Photography

Laura Bustillos Jáquez is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from the border of Mexico and the United States. As a transnational woman of color, she focuses on telling stories about immigration and social reconstruction movements within the U.S.-Mexico border and the world. Laura graduated with a BA in Visual Journalism and a special recognition from Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. She then obtained a David Lynch MA in Film at Maharishi University in 2015.

She is a current fellow of The Laundromat Project in NYC, was 2019’s Distinguished Global Speaker on Immigration, Humanity, and Empowerment at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, participated in Creative Capital’s “Taller Profesional para Artistas” in 2019, was invited lecturer of “Decolonizing our Identities” at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez as well as ISMA in Cotonou, Benin as part of “Le Festival International de court-métrage des écoles de cinema”, among other creative accomplishments as a Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, and more.

She is the founder of La Bú Productions and is currently based in New York City & Ciudad Juarez-El Paso (U.S.-Mexico Border).

To see more of Laura Bustillos filmography, check out her page.

Production Assistants:
Isangelica Soto & Sergio Torres Negron

Translations: Raquel Salas Rivera.

Subtitles: Karla Claudio Betancourt