11th Annual Immigration Film Fest

Welcome to the 2024 Immigration Film Fest! The Immigration Film Fest is hosted by KAMA DC, a volunteer-run nonprofit dedicated to providing a platform for immigrants and refugees in the DMV to share their skills and stories. Now in the festival's 11th year, we are bringing you a hybrid film festival with virtual screenings for 29 films via Eventive and four in-person screenings in Washington, DC from October 17-20

The screenings will be hosted at a variety of venues in downtown DC and each screening feature Q&A with film directors or other expert speakers.Welcome to the 2024 Immigration Film Fest, now organized by KAMA DC! This October we are bringing you a hybrid film festival with virtual screenings via Eventive.

Schedule:

7:00 - 9:30 PM

Family Ties: Doubles with DelMar

Join us at E Street Cinema to enjoy two films exploring what family ties mean for immigrants. The screening will kick off with the short film DelMar, about a young surfer from El Salvador who moves to Maryland to reunite with her mother. This will be followed by the first feature film in our weekend’s lineup, Doubles, which tells the original story of a Trinidadian street vendor who travels to Toronto and must decide if he will save his estranged father from dying. After the films, we'll hear from the director of DelMar, Lucy Morales Carlisle!

Lucy Morales Carlisle is two-time Emmy-nominated, two-time Webby winner and a multi-disciplinary filmmaker with over a decade of experience in digital media and post-production. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and a MFA in Media Arts from The City College of New York. As an immigrant displaced by the Salvadoran Civil War, her work deals with themes of identity and displacement.

Doubles

A Trinidadian street vendor must travel to Toronto and decide if he will help save his estranged father from dying.

DelMar

A young surfer on the cusp of adulthood navigates life between two worlds. Brenda spent the majority of her life in El Zonte, El Salvador, a rural beach town famous for its surf. Brenda began competing at the age of 15 and quickly rose through the ranks locally, making her dreams of traveling and surfing around the world seemingly more attainable. In 2017, however, Brenda moved to Maryland, a state not known for its beaches nor its perfect waves, to reunite with her mother, whom she had never met. Brenda now has to figure out how to navigate the two worlds to which she belongs. Back home in El Zonte, she's a respected surfer who is part of a larger community; in Maryland, she is just another immigrant to the United States. DelMar is a short documentary about displacement and inter-generational loss and triumph.

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