Oaxacalifornia: The Return

Dir. Trisha Ziff

Oaxacalifornia: El regreso, 2021, Mexico, USA , 84 min

Synopsis

An intimate portrait of three generations of a Mexican-American family in California, Oaxacalifornia: The Return revisits the Mejía family twenty-five years after they were first portrayed negotiating their place in a new environment, digging deep into the complexities of multigenerational immigrant identities and the nuances of both belonging and otherness to become a moving epic about the fabric of this nation.

Credits

Director

Trisha Ziff

Producers

Andrew Houchens, Isabel del Río

Executive producers

Lawrence Davin, Alejandro Springall, Sylvia Steven

Associate producers

Daniela Alatorre, Elena Fortes

Coproducers

Hugo Villa Smythe, Alan Suárez

Cinematography

Felipe Pérez Burchard, Mario García Joya, Seamus McGarvey

Writer & editor

Jorge Márquez

Sound designer

Pablo Lach

Postproduction

Fernando Maganda

Original score

Jacobo Lieberman, Andrés Sánchez Maher

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