Filmmakers and Progressive Organizations to Launch “Entre Nos Moms for Family Unity” Campaign

On the heels of Mother’s Day weekend a partnership of organizations including the Center for American Progress, America’s Voice Education Fund, and Reform Immigration for America joined Indiepix Studios and the filmmakers of the award-winning film “Entre Nos” to launch the Entre Nos Moms for Family Unity campaign. This unique culture and advocacy partnership leverages a powerful immigration-related story to continue building momentum for comprehensive immigration reform. It is also a unique opportunity to engage a new and active constituent group in the debate: women, and, more specifically, mothers.

The Entre Nos Moms for Family Unity campaign will bring together mothers and their children at house parties throughout the country where they will share their stories and highlight the importance of keeping families together by passing meaningful immigration reform legislation this year. The campaign will launch with a Mother’s Day weekend screening of “Entre Nos.” Written and directed by Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte, and starring Paola Mendoza, “Entre Nos” tells the inspirational story of an immigrant mother and her children as they struggle to build a life in a strange city after being abandoned by their father. Mendoza made the film as a tribute to her mother and will show the film in the Jackson Heights community of Queens, New York, where the film was shot. The screening will be on Friday, May 7, at 8:00 p.m. at Natives Theatre, 82-22 Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and will be followed by a live Q&A with Paola Mendoza, her mother Liliana Legge, and Vanessa Cárdenas, Director of Progress 2050 at the Center for American Progress.

The theatrical release of “Entre Nos” is slated for May 14 at the Quad Theatre in New York City, and DVDs of the film will be provided for the Moms for Family Unity campaign house parties.

KJ