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Bulls and Saints: Film Screening and Discussion
January 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
CAM Members: Free
Not-Yet Members: $10
Students: $5
Registration encouraged
Lugar de Encuentros / Place of Encounters brings into focus lives that often straddle two worlds. In Bulls and Saints, Rodrigo Dorfman presents a story of nostalgia for a hometown alongside deep roots established in a new community.
After 20 years of living in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home. Little do they know, it will be the most difficult journey of their lives. Set between the backdrop of the rodeo rings of North Carolina and the spellbinding Mexican hometown they long for, Bulls and Saints is a love story of reverse migration, rebellion, and redemption.
Following the screening we will host a Q&A with the filmmaker. Rodrigo Dorfman is a North Carolina-based award-winning writer, multimedia producer and filmmaker, who has worked with ITVS, POV, HBO, Salma Hayek’s Ventanazul and the BBC among others. For the past 20 years, Rodrigo Dorfman has been documenting the emerging Latino community in North Carolina through a series of hybrid educational/neo-realist films, Angelica’s Dreams and Roberto’s Dreams, and VIVA LA COOPERATIVA, a feature documentary on the history of the first Latino Credit Union. His documentary This Taco Truck Kills Fascists (2018) won Best Louisiana Feature Award at the New Orleans Film Festival. Dorfman is also a playwright, film critic, essayist, multimedia journalist and ethnographer.