"Unseen": New Film Profiles a Blind, Undocumented Social Work Student, Humanizing Disabled Migrants

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As presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Joe Biden scapegoat and attack immigrants on the campaign trail, stoking racist and xenophobic fears for votes, we speak to the director of a groundbreaking new film, _unseen_, that aims to reframe the narrative. Using experimental cinematography to promote accessibility for blind and low-vision audiences, _unseen_ follows Pedro, who is blind and undocumented, as he works toward a degree in social work. Director Set Hernandez, themself an undocumented immigrant and a co-founder of the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, discusses the film's uplifting of the "undocumented and disabled perspective," in opposition to political narratives that exclude and dehumanize immigrant communities

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