Libre
ABOUT
For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for many, the reality is much more complicated. “Libre” sheds light on one of many hidden costs of reunification for immigrant families.
Anna Barsan is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY. Anna’s work has been featured at Sundance, HotDocs, Camden International Film Festival, Rooftop Films Summer Series, The Brooklyn Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum, La Mama Galleria and published by Field of Vision, The New Yorker, NBC, Art21 and Democracy Now. Her short film, Libre, investigates the use of GPS ankle monitors by private companies and has screened in more than twenty festivals both nationally and internationally. Anna is a former supervising producer at The Laura Flanders Show and coordinated workshops in filmmaking and live video performance at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit from 2015-2017. Anna is currently at work on a short film examining surveillance technologies in Detroit as well as her first feature film, Softly in all directions, with support from Field of Vision and the Sundance Institute.
CREDITS
Laura Poitras
Mitra Bonshahi
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