Laredoans Speak: Voices on Immigration

A Border Town Pictures production. Produced by Victor A. Martinez, Ryan Schafer, Pepe Serna. Executive producer, Frank Esposito, Ernest Smart. Directed, put together by Victor A. Martinez, Ryan Schafer.With: Raul Salinas, Henry Cuellar, Juan Garza, Robert Greenblum, Richard Pauza Junior., Pepe Serna, Robert Cremo, Jesus Martinez.In Victor A. Martinez and Ryan Schafer's naive, sloppy documentary, Laredoans (people from Laredo) indeed speak their brains, or otherwise a few of those do. Some six or seven males (women plainly absent), plus a mayor, an immigration lawyer, a congressman together with a "coyote," offer sights on immigration. Sadly, these exactly the same factor -- which is nothing new, affecting or articulate. Pic bows November. 18 at Gotham's Quad Cinema before moving for the dustbin. In a variety of rhetorical styles, within the careful evasiveness in the Texas congressman for the contemptuousness in the silhouetted smuggler, the participants argue regarding guest-worker visas, consider border walls an insult and believe Folks mexico are discriminated against due to racism. They produce their clincher -- America can be a country of immigrants! -- using the kind of enthusiasm that generally has a lately minted thought. One interviewee even quotes the Emma Lazarus poem at the end from the Statue of Liberty, verbatim. From time to time, rebus-like record charts, whose relevance is tangential at best, occupy the screen for extended stretches sans commentary.Camera (color, HD), Martinez editor, Schafer music, Christian Mendoza. Examined on DVD, NY, November. 14, 2011. Running time: 75 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com