Living in Dual Cultures at the US/Mexico Border | PBS Short Docs
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Far West Texas is a place where local folklore looms as large as the landscape. Two fronteriza women-one a public radio music show host, the other a Mariachi and folklórico dancer-live in two cultures at the same time, as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert. Touches of magical realism infuse this portrait of life along the U.S.- Mexico border.
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00:00 - What is a fronteriza or fronterizo?
01:30 - Growing up in Juárez/El Paso
02:51 - Being a White Mariachi Player
04:24 - Marriage Across the Border
07:15 - Ancient Civilizations and Crossing the Border
10:14 - When My Visa Expired
11:14 - A Pregnancy On The Border
13:52 - Credits
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen
Directed and Produced by
Sam Osborn
Alejandra Vasquez
Director of Photography
Kenny Wu
Executive In Charge Of Production
Royd Chung
Supervising Producer
Pamela Torno
Editor
Sam Osborn
Associate Producer
Sarah Vasquez
Susan Cohen
Color Correction
Kenny Wu
Sound Designer
Hansdale Hsu
Visual Effects
Logan Shilinglaw IV
Titles Designer
Jason Cryer
Production Assistant
Jacaranda Del Real
Archival Footage Provided By
Les Blank Films
Pond5
Song Credits
Cloud Wow 002 / Written by Roberto Carlos Lange
Performed by Roberto Carlos Lange
El Paso de Gigante / Written by Beto Tlahuetl
Performed by Grupo Soñador
Courtesy of InnerCat Music Group, LLC
Bubble Luck / Written by Roberto Carlos Lange
Performed by Roberto Carlos Lange
Leganía / Written by Lisandro Meza
Performed by Lisandro Meza
Courtesy of Temi Music
Tragos / Written by Julio Salgado
Performed by Julio Salgado
Cloud Wow 001 / Written by Roberto Carlos Lange
Performed by Roberto Carlos Lange
Special Thanks
Charlie Angell
Ballroom Marfa
Sally Beauvois
Big Bend Ranch State Park
Big Bend Sentinel
The Film Independent + CNN Original Series Docuseries Intensive
David Keller
The Logan Nonfiction Program
Marfa Public Radio
Mimi Webb Miller
Barney Nelson
Marcos Paredes
Leah Natasha Thomas
Independent Lens Short-Form Funding Provided By:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Folk Frontera is co-production of Osborn Creative LLC and Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with PBS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This program was produced by Osborn Creative LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2022 Osborn Creative LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Growing up and living in Southern California , Mexican are just part of the culture. Strongly present through music , food , culture . We all celebrate Cinco De Mayo on our own way . In a way , we celebrate them . We can not imagine California without them . Hard working people who complain less and endure more . 😃😃😍
@sierrachoco5271
Жыл бұрын
"Hard working, complain less, and do more" - well said!! Nicest group of people I have ever met!
Great little documentary! Thank you for sharing
I love her dual cultures ♥️🌺She is a beautiful human being.
Hats off to you and your family for embracing another culture besides your own. Thank you and best wishes from upstate NY!!!
Doesn’t matter where you born or what color you are if you love Mexican culture …your Mexican by heart ❤️🇲🇽😃
@antoniochavez6426
Жыл бұрын
You bet my friend arriba Mexico!!!
Enjoyed this documentary
Qué bonito documental ! Muy interesante porque en Florida, la cultura mexicana no es muy presente.
"America nacio libre el hombre la dividio"
@lupitah1012
Жыл бұрын
Eso 👌es verdad 👌🇲🇽👩🦱🇺🇸
We need more people like 👍 you
Loved it
Texas y muchos estados sigen siendo de mexico y poco ah poco vamos recuperandolos
@abdonramirez7178
Жыл бұрын
Para eso nos falta mucho que ironía los gueros se han adueñado de nuestras playas nuestros pueblos mágicos como San Miguel de Allende y nosotros en el gabacho seremos mayoría pero seguimos ganando poco y los que logramos tener un negocio explotamos a nuestros paisanos aparte hay que recordar que los verdaderos dueños son los nativos que hoy viven asta sin luz y electricidad
@alfonsovillarreal6409
Жыл бұрын
Bien dicho
@lupitah1012
Жыл бұрын
Es sierto 🇲🇽♥️👩🦱🇺🇸😍
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR" ♡☆♡
As a Mexican national living in the United States as an ilegal alien since I was a child, Now that I think of it, it is strange. I speak both languages fluently, I am familiar with both cultures,, yet,, I feel like I’m a man with no country. I’m here illegally living in the informal economy and I’ve never been to Mexico as a grown man
I would fit in there. I speak both languages. It's just so hot in Texas. I've lived there.
Cuando estube en mcallen Texas ví muchos prietos hablando inglés muy paresidos a mis paisanos de Chiapas siempre pensé que el ingle solo era para blancos ingleses cómo yo viví muchísimo tiempo en norte Carolina y tenesse es muy rraro ver esto.
Is mexico ok???
PBS remember Texas used to be Mexico, we didn't crossed the border, the border crossed us, AZ,CA OR,NM,UT, WY ,OKLAHOMA?
@lindaolivas7699
Жыл бұрын
That's so right on
@mr.centrist5789
Жыл бұрын
Wrong. Most Mexican Americans descend from recent immigrants so nice try. 😆
@michaelpatino5284
Жыл бұрын
CO
@lindaolivas7699
Жыл бұрын
@@mr.centrist5789 the Indians like the blacks mixed with Mexicans , Caucasian, Japanese etc.
@sierrachoco5271
Жыл бұрын
@@lindaolivas7699 Truth be known we are all bi-racial. I am half Northern Irish (Black Irish) and my ancestors were heavily inter-mixed with Native and African Americans. I am half French Canadian (Cajun if you're in Louisiana), many people don't know that French Canadians are also susceptible to sickle cell anemia. We are not the "pure race" that we think we are, the sooner people realiE the better off we'll be!!
Were charing water were charing culture
Our culture is beautiful in all ways very family oriented the USA crossed into Mexico , must we forget . no one really owns the land but the Indians, the natives were fooled to let go of land. they we're pushed to corners it's sad. got to love Mexico, we shouldn't have borders
@mr.centrist5789
Жыл бұрын
Wrong. The u.s. owns the land you lost. Deal boo
@lindaolivas7699
Жыл бұрын
@@mr.centrist5789 the US hasn't done right. just wait to hear how all of us have been fooled
@mr.centrist5789
Жыл бұрын
@@lindaolivas7699 Haven't done right what? You are complaining about something that happened 170 years ago. what do we have to apologize for? Nothing. The Mexicans already living there became citizens. And the U.S. has a right to kick out whoever has no papers they won the land end of story.
@lindaolivas7699
Жыл бұрын
@@mr.centrist5789 tell that to your President right now you don't need papers there is thousands coming in and have more prevliges than a born citizen. How about those waiting to be residents they have to wait But anyway wait to see what our pass administration and I mean pass United States we are not. we are America the Republic. it's to much to share just sit back and watch , wait and see ,hear etc
@lindaolivas7699
Жыл бұрын
@@mr.centrist5789 just sit back and wait. you will get to see and hear what all has occurred behind our backs. we are not USA we are America the Republic if you can do some homework you will know the truth behind U.S.A.
When you remember that Texas was a state of MEXICO that made the mistake of letting English/American settlers start farms in her lands. That those American settlers rose up against rheir gracious host country because it did not allow slavery, and the Americans each wanted to own and farm more land than 1 farmer/family could physically tend. So the American settlers stole Texas...but lots of formerly Mexican families were in Texas when this happened. So there are people of Mexican heritage with far deeper roots that the caucasian residents.
@Grumpy19
2 жыл бұрын
Get over it. You ask people to stop looking into their past when it comes to American heritage. But you are ok with going to the past on immigration issues
@eduardoeliascanela7588
2 жыл бұрын
@@Grumpy19 big difference lol and ironically enough this argument is exactly tied to that “American heritage” you speak of silly goose. You’re not very smart huh?
@mariazimdars4058
2 жыл бұрын
@@Grumpy19 yep! It's so typical to slap the hand that helps. If Texas had stayed Mexican where would you be?? In the same state than the rest of tge border towns, at the mercy of smugglers and cartels. This is the reason half of Mexican citizens are already here. So this woman has a house in Mexico, then why are you complaining? You would not even have a brick if you had stayed there. You, as millions more, have benefited by hard honest work. And still you complain, incredible!
@boopeep9670
2 жыл бұрын
Who taught you that garbage? That is not the history of Texas or Mexico for that matter. That is some really a simplistic incorrect view of what happened to Texas and Mexico. You left out all the other countries that were involved not to mention the indigenous people that were there before Mexicans. As far as people tending more land than a single-family it’s called a profession they’re called farmers. If not for farmers creating food for others there would be no other professions like doctors and nurses or they would be too busy tending their land. That’s how we cooperate so we can have other things like clothes ,carpenters, mechanics…. It’s called a civilization or society. It makes the best use of everybody’s individual skills and allows them to have more than what they can only make themselves. It was the original barter system. Without people forming more land than one family needs you would only own the things you can make so you can say goodbye to your computers or Internet or electricity… I really hope you’re a kid still learning these things and not an adult and that is your worldview.
@madylenshank5921
2 жыл бұрын
American settlers did the Mexican people a favor or Tejas would still be a dirt poor state of Mexico
No French speaking New York State thruway trilingual
There would be no mariachi music without the German influence at its root.
@borona8498
Жыл бұрын
MARIACHI ROOTS ARE. FROM FRENCE NOT FROM GREMANY
@borona8498
Жыл бұрын
BANDA MUSIC IS FROM GERMANY
@mrjamila88
Жыл бұрын
Maureen. German influence is found in Banda music. Mariachi music influenced by French or other European instruments. Regardless Mexicans made it their own style etc
Funny how you only put a Genre of music. All my friends in Mexico listen to Gothic, Heavy Metal and Punk Rock you're just trying to stereotype people . I don't know one single person that listens to mariachi
@justofranco3620
Жыл бұрын
Se usa generalmente en fiestas especiales.
I totally agree since. 9-11. Everything change from day to Night. But the most intriguing 🤔 Question is We need you. But we don’t like you. Because we are superior. And we Live in AMERICA 🇺🇸 and you don’t. And I said. So we’re not AMERICAN?? are you okay. Is your brain 🧠 working properly,,? My History has a different view. I’m sorry. I don’t agree with you. .!! On the 60,s “” on my city port It was normal the , “arrival “ On Weekends Motorcycle Gangs “ Los Gringos Wueros . Hippies. They never stayed at hotels, they always sleep by the Ocean 🌊. Government Never Bother this people.!!
Este de la entrevista como que se esfuerza mucho para hablar inglés
Además tú no eres blanca eres algo clara de color pero eso no es ser blanco talvez por que no hay blancos en la frontera
Y..otra.cosa.que.no.sabemos.los.mexicanos.que.el.1846.cuando.agarraron.al.presidente.zantana.y.lo.amagaron.y.lo.obligaron.que.bendiera.nuevo.mexico.uta.colorado.y.arizona
Como que esta jente está un poco perdida y ellos mismos crean la frontera en su mente
It was fake
I guess asking for Patriotism, Loyalty and Assimilation is asking for too much these days.I came to the Nation in 1988 and never looked.
As a Mexican, that music and that clothing do not represent me, it is shameful and offensive.
@charismausa
2 жыл бұрын
İntresting, you must be frıom a big city.
@nefiruiz7171
2 жыл бұрын
You're the one that's shameful to consider yourself Mexican, that's not their everyday atire. You must of forgot your roots. "Que verguenza das".
@Shinerfolk60
Жыл бұрын
What music what clothing? I didn't hear any Tex mex music the music genre that gave birth to onda grupera in this video only cumbias.
@luperendon4990
Жыл бұрын
Then you might not be 💯 percent Mexican
@Luciopiacenza333
Жыл бұрын
@@luperendon4990 no soy Macuarro.
It’s illegal, stay in your country.
@hectoralvarado6209
2 жыл бұрын
Nobody envited the European Anglo to come here in the first place.. one thing I agree is someone once said History repeats itself and by the looks of many South Eastern states yes it's true. So either you start hablando Espanol or your out of many States.
@mr.centrist5789
Жыл бұрын
@@hectoralvarado6209 too bad they are here and they won the land and they can have whatever who they please deal. 😆