Las Abogadas

Community Resource Center is excited to be screening Las Abogadas on Tuesday, May 2nd. Please join us for cocktails in the Emelin lobby prior to the scrrening as well as a special Q&A featuring Rebecca Eichler and Victoria Bruce, immediately following the film. Proceeds benefit CRC.

Evening Program
– 6-7pm | Cocktail Hour
– 7pm | Introduction
– 7:15-8:50pm | Film
– 8:50-9:30pm | Q&A

Las Abogadas follows a group of immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. Government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to forcing border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana, to standing up to human traffickers in a makeshift refugee camp along the Mexican side of the border, to giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to families desperate to see American soil.

Victoria Bruce is a Documentary Filmmaker and author with a passion for human rights and a long history of working on dramatic and sometimes dangerous non-fiction stories in Latin America. She has had her films in over 50 film festivals—including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the Sundance Film Festival—and has had films acquired by HBO, CBS, History Channel, Netflix, Hulu and PBS. She is the recipient of many film festival awards as well as a duPont-Columbia University Award.

Rebecca Eichler is a retired attorney and first generation American of Chinese and German descent currently living in central Mexico.