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LAS ABOGADAS

JUNE 16, 2023 @ 7:00PM

Venue  

Instituto Cervantes New York

211 E 49th St, New York, NY 10017

(212) 308-7720

ABOUT

ORIGINAL TITLE: Las Abogadas

DIRECTOR: Victoria Bruce

DATE COMPLETED: 2023

COUNTRY: USA

FILM CATEGORY: Documentary

LENGTH OF FILM: 90 min

PRODUCER: Laura Seltzer-Duny

PROTAGONISTS: Rebecca Eichler, Charlene D'Cruz, Jodi Goodwin, Mulu Alemayehu

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SYNOPSIS 

LAS ABOGADAS follows a group of immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. Government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. Protagonists include:

  • Rebecca Eichler, a retired attorney and first-generation American of Chinese and German descent currently living in central Mexico.

  • Charlene D’Cruz, who left India as a teenager to attend college in the U.S. and found she faced intense discrimination as a woman and immigrant, something that continues to this day.​

  • Jodi Goodwin, a Texas-based mother of four who created the first sidewalk legal clinic as migrant families were bottlenecked in the blazing Mexican sun.​

  • Mulu Alemayehu, an Ethiopian-American who came to the U.S. as a political refugee and fulfilled her dream of studying law to help others being persecuted. 

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