Directed by Rebecca Cammisa and released in 2009, Which Way Home is a film that follows a numbers of unaccompanied children and adolescents riding on top of "la bestia" in an attempt to reach the United States. This Academy Award nominated film follows the children from different Central American countries through Mexico and into the United States. Not all of the children arrive in the U.S., and of those who make it, not all of them stay. At the time of filming, about 5% of immigrants arriving at the US/Mexico border were unaccompanied minors. Today, that number is much higher, with the first 8 1/2 months of the 2014 fiscal year experiencing a 99% increase in unaccompanied minors than in 2013.
The film's trailer...
...and a clip from the film.
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