Sam Osborn

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

When the activist painter Judy Baca conceived The Great Wall of Los Angeles in 1975 as a monument to the history of indigenous peoples in California, she didn't realize that she was embarking on a 50-year journey that would employ 400 youth painters and amount to one of the largest murals on the planet.

Folk Frontera is a magical-realist portrait of life in the borderlands. The film follows two fronteriza women as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, a region whose culture is thousands of years old, but which is bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.

When 15-year old Emilio Monreal is dragged to Mexico City after his mother's divorce, he finds a home among the city's emo scene. Little does he know that he'll soon play a pivotal role in the stranger-than-fiction punk vs. emo riots of 2008, where he'll battle in the streets for his right to exist.

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

When the activist painter Judy Baca conceived The Great Wall of Los Angeles in 1975 as a monument to the history of indigenous peoples in California, she didn't realize that she was embarking on a 50-year journey that would employ 400 youth painters and amount to one of the largest murals on the planet.

Folk Frontera is a magical-realist portrait of life in the borderlands. The film follows two fronteriza women as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, a region whose culture is thousands of years old, but which is bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.

When 15-year old Emilio Monreal is dragged to Mexico City after his mother's divorce, he finds a home among the city's emo scene. Little does he know that he'll soon play a pivotal role in the stranger-than-fiction punk vs. emo riots of 2008, where he'll battle in the streets for his right to exist.