Official Trailer for Doc 'Five Years North' About Immigrants in the US

by Alex Billington May 4, 2021Source: Vimeo “I’m afraid. I hope to God they won’t catch and deport me.” Optimist Films has released a trailer for the documentary Five Years North, which originally premiered at last year’s Full Frame Film Festival. It also played at last year’s San Antonio Film Festival; the film opens first at the Film Forum cinema in NYC at the end of this month. Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived alone in New York City. He struggles to work, study, and evade Judy – the Cuban-American ICE officer patrolling his neighborhood. The directors say they “didn’‬t set out to make an immigration film‭,” but after meeting Luis while working on another project, and followed him as he made his way up to NYC. It also took a while for them to get approval to film ICE. And the result is this moving film showing both sides. Official trailer (+ posters) for Zach Ingrasci & Chris Temple’s doc Five Years North, on Vimeo (via TFS): Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived alone in New York City. He…
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