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VIRTUAL CINEMAPOLIS SCREENINGS BEGIN 5/8
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What is virtual cinema?
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
Directors: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera
Writers: Cristina Ibarra (story by), Alex Rivera (story by)
Stars: Mohammad Abdollahi, Maynor Alvarado, Roman Arabia
REVIEW
Ibarra and Rivera maintain an effortless balance between genre-rooted entertainment and concern for real human suffering caused by governmental policies. They get viewers wrapped up enough in the narrative that it takes a while to appreciate the courage required to set it in motion.