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Independent Film Series: "Alambrista!" (Not Rated)

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough. (From IMDB)

About Dr. Robert Chester:

Robert K Chester grew up in England, where he developed a fascination with the films and popular culture of the United States. He moved to the US in 2001 and, after completing an MA in American Studies at the University of Wyoming, came to Maryland in 2003. He has been at UMD ever since‚ first as a graduate student, then as a member of the faculty‚ and his enthusiasm for teaching is very much intact. Dr. Chester's courses and research interests focus on the ways in which popular culture shapes narratives of US history, on which of those narratives become privileged, and on the place of marginalized groups within those narratives. He has an abiding interest in popular remembrance of World War II, and his publications thus far attend to war memories and their deployment to various ideological ends in the postwar period. He lives in Elkridge, MD, and likes to spend his spare time watching films, building Lego, walking, and following the mighty Forest Green Rovers.

Not Rated 

93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes) in length.