UNDER THE SAME MOON - AmigoLatino’s Movie Recommendation!

It is not everyday that we find movies that are so close to what we stand for at AmigoLatino, the importance of the family unit and the real issues that many broken Latino families go through as a result of their migration to the north.

In the movie Under the Same Moon by Fox Studios, Executive Director Ligiah Villalobos, “says she wanted to explore the theme of abandoned children, a subject that became painfully real to her when her parents split up when she was 3 years old”. This is exactly one of the main issues we attempt to address at AmigoLatino, by democratizing access to affordable face-to-face video conferencing services, to allow families to keep in touch.

According to the Chicago Tribune’s review, Tracking both sides of story when immigrant family is split, “several of the film’s most memorable characters are nameless illegal immigrants shown struggling to reach el norte or, once there, struggling to make ends meet financially and not be sent back to Mexico. Reading over the script during pre-production, Riggen “suddenly discovered that all these characters have one thing in common.” “All these people risked their lives crossing the border, leaving everything behind, for love,” says Riggen, who was born and raised in Guadalajara, studied film at Columbia University and has lived in Los Angeles for the last several years. “For love of their families who they’re going to go reach, for love of their families who they leave behind and send money to. But it always has to do with love and family.”

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