Where I’m from Land represents a stake in this country, it contains the seeds of culture, a history that transcends borders and imbued with the heritage of the indigenous, Spanish, Mexican and U.S., who have governed the region. But the U.S.-Mexico border and my homeland in South Texas occupy a unique place in the U.S. popular imagination; it is the frontier, a battle site, the vulnerable underbelly for drug and immigrant smuggling. A mythological region where the ambitions and anxieties of two nations have played out, and where 160 years of U.S.-Mexico relations was born.
Tell’em Who You Are is a narrative essay, a one-hour documentary film, a return home to South Texas to unearth memory buried in the Land condemned by the federal government and lost to a Border Wall of steel. Buried and preserved in that land is a story that is centuries old, buried there is the story of Texas and the U.S. West. To understand the forces that inspired the nation to spend billions of dollars on more than 700 miles of Border Wall, stripping its citizens of any legal recourse to save their land; to understand why some families fought back and others acquiesced, we must unearth the brutal, bloody history buried in the South Texas chaparral.
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