Jan 07 2022
Indie Lens Pop-Up: Missing in Brooks County

Indie Lens Pop-Up: Missing in Brooks County

Presented by Presa House Gallery at Presa House Gallery

Missing in Brooks County
Filmmakers: Jeff Bemiss, Lisa Molomot, and Jacob Bricca
Approximate running time: 60 min.

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY

Eddie Canales runs the South Texas Human Rights Center, but the messages that strangers leave on Eddie’s phone speak to his unofficial role as a private detective. In a rural community where more migrants go missing than anywhere else in the United States, families of lost loved ones call for help. Omar and Michelle reach out for help finding Omar’s brother Homero Roman, a longtime but undocumented U.S. resident who was deported to Mexico after a traffic stop at age 27. Struggling to adjust in an unfamiliar country, Homero eventually tried to return to his home of two decades. He disappeared in Brooks County. When another man, Juan Maceda, goes missing, his family also turns to Eddie, describing a familiar predicament in Mexico—a choice between lifelong poverty or gang affiliation that compels migrants like Juan to cross the border. Follow Eddie as he engages with border patrol agents to unlock the mysteries and confront the agonizing facts of life and death in a South Texas town many miles north of the border.

No Soy Óscar
Filmmaker: Jon Ayon Alonso
Approximate running time: 14:56 min.

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY SHORT

A first-generation American father journeys through unrecognizable, unceded lands in the border regions between the U.S. and Mexico in search of the place where Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his young daughter Angie Valeria drowned.

Admission Info

Free Admission

Phone: 2109135842

Email: presahousegallery@gmail.com

Dates & Times

2022/01/07 - 2022/01/07

Additional time info:

Missing in Brooks County premieres on Independent Lens Monday, January 31, 2022, tune in or stream on KLRN or your local PBS station or stream on PBS Video.

Location Info

Presa House Gallery

725 S. Presa St., San Antonio, TX 78210