The hottest summer on record left Austin scorched and terrified, a city where heat hits hardest in at-risk neighborhoods and communities of color. In the aftermath, the Castañón family walks into the woods, asking themselves: What is heat? At a city-run heat-mapping event, they trace invisible threats, cooling corridors, and exercise small acts of agency, exploring how everyday conversations—at home, with neighbors, with scientists and policymakers—shape the way we live in a world remade by heat.
A visual introduction to three separate locations in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas; overlaid with an audio of Robert Frost reading his poem Mending Wall.
Glowing softly in the West Texas desert night, artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Mariposa Relámpago” was once an ordinary school bus, but is now a richly decorated, mobile site for remembrance and healing. This short documentary interweaves the bus’s journey and the artist’s journey to the United States as an unaccompanied, undocumented minor fleeing civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s into a poetic reflection of trauma, memories, and healing.
On August 31, 2024, ENTRE Film Center & Regional Archive hosted its first Boca Chica, Corazón Grande Beach Happening, Playa de Memorias, a community event aimed at uplifting and activating the place we love, adore and are fighting for. Playa de Memorias was a free offering to our community that featured an art installation in partnership with La Tijera and led by Nansi Guevara, antojitos curated by Luna Vela of Neighborhood Molino and free roundtrip transport from the 77 Flea Market in Brownsville to Boca Chica Beach.
We aim to raise the visibility of Boca Chica Beach, a humble yet deeply historical coastline that reaches the mouth of the Rio Grande River. Boca Chica Beach has long served as a community beach and sanctuary. Now, this is all at risk of erasure with the ongoing development of private corporations that continue to harm this fragile ecosystem and restrict access to a federal state park and public land.
Filmed, recorded, edited, and colored by C. Díaz, ENTRE co-founder.
Documented in La Plata, Argentina, San Antonio film students interview current film students from La Universidad de La Plata (UNLP), one of the institutions most severely targeted during the Dirty War.
In a time defined by hostility towards immigrants, a Mexican-American filmmaker turns the camera on his own family, in order to document their lived immigrants experiences.
