First Time Home: An Award-Winning Short Film

FIRST TIME HOME is a film directed and shot by young people who are Indigenous Triqui, second-generation immigrants: Noemi Librado Sanchez, Heriberto Ventura, Esmirna Librado, and Esmeralda Ventura. This is their story, told as they wish to tell it. When the four cousins learned their grandfather in Mexico was gravely ill, they travelled from their immigrant community in California to their family’s ancestral village in Oaxaca for the first time. The teenagers recorded video letters to share with their parents and other relatives in the U.S., who are farmworkers and have not seen their relatives in Mexico in over 15 years.

(29 minutes)

This film is being hosted as part of a week-long exploration of agricultural production, its workers,
immigration and environmental sustainability https://www.firsttimehomefilm.com/

LEARN MORE at:
https://honors.purdue.edu/news/Aronson23.php

Sponsored by: Latino Cultural Center, Purdue Student Government, John Martinson Honors College

In cooperation with: Institute for a Sustainable Future, Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Dept. of Anthropology, MESA/Agribility