Femme Frontera: Creating Nuanced Border Narratives Through Film

“We can’t just sit here and wait to be invited to the table. Instead, we kicked down the door, and we made our own table," says Jackie Barragan.

A still from the film La Bi-Vencia by Mariana Góngora-Reyes and Analaura Cárdenas, recipients of the La Frontera Film Lab

In 2016, Angie Reza Tures, an El Paso–based filmmaker, invited five of her friends to screen her short film, Memory Box, along with their own films. They presented the film showcase at a local theater in El Paso, and it was such a suc…