Director Takes on Hot Button Issue

Immigration. Yes, here in Los Angeles nothing gets right wing talk radio all fired up like immigration. Now, a director for a film that is getting zero play here on the web, or anywhere else (maybe because snooty critics panned it), gets an interview with the AP. Reuters talks to Patricia Riggen about her film, Under the Same Moon:

“It was my first full-length feature. We had no money, no time, and people told me I was crazy to even try” to make the movie, Riggen told Reuters.

“Under the Same Moon” tells of a Mexican mother, Rosario, working illegally as a domestic laborer in Los Angeles while her son Carlos is left behind in Mexico.

After years apart, the 9-year-old boy decides to risk everything and cross the border in search of his mother. What ensues is a tale of the extreme measures immigrants will take to come to the United States and the harrowing trip they face.

Riggen insists that she never set out to push political buttons when starting work on the movie three years ago by developing the script with writer Ligiah Villalobos.

“Immigration wasn’t a big topic,” she said. “In fact, it was considered a bad subject as people didn’t want to watch movies about it. But I went ahead because I never thought of this film in those terms.”

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