El Vacío

A short documentary told as a confessional, mixing home video and animation, in which the writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio looks at the personal toll of immigration policy on one family.

The story

Produced by Concordia Studio with The New York Times, the film screened at the 2019 Tribeca Festival in a special programme of New York Times Op-Docs on immigration and was published by the Times as an Op-Doc.

The score is by Sam Lipman, who also composed the music for Southwest of Salem.

Laurels

• Tribeca Festival, N.O.W. Special Screening: NYT Op-Docs, 2019
• The New York Times Op-Docs, 2019