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The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see the changes that have settled over them, and follows the family on their return to Mexico.
Fleeing drought and the lack of opportunity, the Meija family came to California and settled in Fresno in the early 1980s. When director Trisha Ziff first met the family in the 1990s, they were still very much a part of Mexico. But today, there’s a whole new generation, seven grandchildren who speak no Spanish and who consider California their home. Mexico is a part of their past, their traditions and imagination. When the three generations return to Oaxaca, is it a visit home, or simply a vacation? Issues of identity, community and country rise to the surface and force each family member to reckon with his or her own place in the world.
Director Biography
Trisha Ziff is a UK-filmmaker, curator and Guggenheim fellow. She is the director of the documentaries Chevolution (2008), The Mexican Suitcase (La maleta mexicana) (2010), The Man Who Saw Too Much (2016) and Witkin & Witkin (2017), which screened at the 2018 MSPIFF.
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