Which Way Home

Which Way Home. As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.

The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the US on a freight train they call “The Beast.” Director Rebecca Cammisa (Sister Helen) tracks the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about--the invisible ones.

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Credits

Director//Producer: Rebecca Cammisa
Executive Producers: Liane Halfon, John Malcovich, Russell Smith, Jack Turner, Bristol Baughan, Bette Cerf Hill, Sheila Nevins
Cinematographers: Lorenzo Hagerman, Eric Goethals
Editors: Pax Wasserman, Madeleine Gavin
Composer: James Lavino
Total Running Time: 94 min.
Website: www.whichwayhome.net

About The Filmmaker

REBECCA CAMMISA became a filmmaker in 1998, when she teamed up with Rob Fruchtman to co-direct, co-produce and shoot the feature documentary film Sister Helen, which aired on HBO, won the Documentary Directing Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming. Sister Helen also won the Gold Hugo Award for Best Documentary Film at the Chicago International Film Festival and nominations from the International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for Distinguished Documentary Achievement and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Film. In 2003, Cammisa founded Documentress Films, and received development support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, HBO, the Wellspring Foundation and the J. William Fulbright Fellowship in Filmmaking for Which Way Home.

Awards

Academy Award Nomination: Best Documentary Feature
Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Documentary