From Family Lore To Film: Rick Perez On Border Stories, Bias, And Building Community

Send us Fan Mail A child under the table, listening to elders swap stories about migrant camps and survival, grows up to ask a bigger question: who gets to author our history, and what shifts when we do? We sit down with documentary powerhouse Rick Perez to trace the thread from family lore to festival premieres, from Sundance boardrooms to borderlands studios, and from personal risk to collective visibility. Rick unpacks the two-track life of an independent filmmaker: the creative highs of ...