NETWORK | N/A. Funded by MoMA PS1

TYPE | Documentary Short

ROLE | Director, Producer, Editor

SYNOPSIS | VEINTITRES: Our Labor Saved Lives documents the 2021 23-day hunger strike held by undocumented, excluded workers and allies alike whose fight led to New York State’s passing of the Excluded Workers Fund. The $2.1B fund allowed for excluded, undocumented workers to receive COVID relief, the first economic assistance package for undocumented, excluded workers of this kind in the United States. As part of Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded, on view at MoMA PS1 during Fall 2021-Winter 2022. A MoMA PS1, Nuevayorkinos, and Resurgent Pictures Film.

Official Selection, NY Latino Film Festival, 2022
Best Phot-Artistic Doc Short, NY Human Rights Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection, 43 CineFestival San Antonio, 2022
Official Selection, Houston Latino Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection, Imagine This Women’s Film Festival, 2022
Semi-Finalist, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2022

Press Coverage: News12