2018

Not A Citizen

ABOUT

ICE wants to deport a 28-year-old Maine permanent resident back to the country his family fled as refugees when he was a child.

Program Short
Section Dirigo Docs
Runtime 0:04
Country United States
Language English

Daniel Quintanilla is a Maine-based documentary filmmaker who grew up in a multicultural home in Mexico. He has collaborated on NSF-supported projects documenting endangered languages in the state of Maine and Mexico. Daniel's short documentary, Not A Citizen, was featured at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival and was also part of the national film tour Stories Beyond Borders. In 2018, Daniel edited The Most Unknown, a feature length science documentary for VICE / MOTHERBOARD. In collaboration with Lewiston-based filmmaker Shuab Mahat, Daniel produced the virtual reality documentary, A Shared Space: Lewiston which was featured at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival and also won the audience award at the 2019 Bates Film Festival. Daniel’s most recent virtual reality film, Returning to Dadaab, follows Shuab Mahat as he returns to Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya to see his mother and siblings for the first time, 15 years after resettlement to the U.S.

CREDITS

Director
Daniel Quintanilla and Hanji Chang
Producer
Produced for COSECHA Maine. Animation by Hanji Chang.
Editor
Daniel Quintanilla

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