Film Screening and Q and A: The Little Trip of a Dream

Film Screening and Q and A:  The Little Trip of a Dream

Wednesday, July 8 | 8pm | Donation appreciated

by Jen Lawhorne; 34 min, NTSC subtitled in Spanish and English

“The Little Trip of a Dream” is a documentary that tells the story of an
American woman who during a trip to Mexico meets the village of her
undocumented friends with whom she works back in Richmond, Va. In
interviews with the community, the woman, Jen, comes to understand her
friends’ motivations for migrating to the U.S. Jen also runs into former
co-workers and her friends’ family members who stayed behind.

Curious, Jen travels to the U.S./Mexico border to see the conditions in
which her friends had to travel. There, she meets activists who are trying
to help migrants and other people who don’t want migrants to enter the
U.S. Jen explores the border and its different manifestations and when she
returns to Richmond to share her experience with her friends, she sees them
with new eyes.