Transnational Indigenous Identities

October 28, 2021

The picture depicts a field that eventually transforms into thick threads that are being weaved by an elderly women. First Time Home, a participatory ethnographic film, is an official selection of the Portland Film Festival. Produced by Seth Holmes, Co-Chair of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, First Time Home premiered at the Portland Film Festival and will be playing till November 8th. Virtual screening options are available. The film is made by four teenagers about their trip from their Indigenous Triqui immigrant community in California to their ancestral village in Mexico for the first time.