Outside Event: Tell em' Who You Are: In Defense of Land and Family

Talk, film screening feature personal story of U.S.-Mexico border wall

Description: To build a multi-billion dollar wall across hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, the Department of Homeland Security is condemning hundreds of acres of privately owned land, much of it owned by Tejanos--U.S. citizens whose roots in the region run centuries deep. "Tell 'em Who You Are: In Defense of Land and Family" is a documentary film rooted in the journey of a native daughter to the embattled borderlands of South Texas, to recover memory of the Tejano-owned land that will be lost to the border wall. The film combines a personal narrative with investigative journalism to connect the wall construction with an age-old Tejano struggle to defend a unique identity and be seen as truly Texan. Director Michelle Garcia will discuss the project and show clips from the film, which is in development. Garcia, a 1996 graduate of the journalism program of the university, is a producer with Independent Sources, a television program about New York's ethnic media that airs on City University of New York television.

Time: Monday, Febraury 2^nd. 7-9 p.m.

Location: Thompson Conference Center auditorium (TCC 1.110)

Admission: Free and open to the public

URL: http://communication.utexas.edu/current/programs/srfellows/DEV75_006878.html