Brenda Avila-Hanna

A mother and daughter create a shared fantasy to explore their intertwined experiences of immigration, labor, and womanhood.

When global developers purchase Industry City — a series of connected industrial buildings within a primarily immigrant, working class community in Brooklyn — conflicting views draw battlelines between residents, city officials and master planners as the fate of the city and contemporary urban development hangs in the balance.

An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his family. But when attaining his dreams leads to new and unexpected challenges, what will Pedro do?

After surviving a near-fatal assault, an Indigenous, transgender teen escaped Mexico 30 years ago, eventually becoming a trans healthcare provider in California. When her mother’s health starts to decline back in Mexico, she risks it all by petitioning for asylum as her only chance of seeing each other again before it’s too late.

A mother and daughter create a shared fantasy to explore their intertwined experiences of immigration, labor, and womanhood.

When global developers purchase Industry City — a series of connected industrial buildings within a primarily immigrant, working class community in Brooklyn — conflicting views draw battlelines between residents, city officials and master planners as the fate of the city and contemporary urban development hangs in the balance.

After surviving a near-fatal assault, an Indigenous, transgender teen escaped Mexico 30 years ago, eventually becoming a trans healthcare provider in California. When her mother’s health starts to decline back in Mexico, she risks it all by petitioning for asylum as her only chance of seeing each other again before it’s too late.

After surviving a near-fatal assault, an Indigenous, transgender teen escaped Mexico 30 years ago, eventually becoming a trans healthcare provider in California. When her mother’s health starts to decline back in Mexico, she risks it all by petitioning for asylum as her only chance of seeing each other again before it’s too late.