Tierra de Leche
Nicaragua / Documentary / 12'8" / Color / 2023
Director: Milton Guillen, Fiona Guy Hall
Director of Photography: Milton Guillen
Producer: Connor Whitley
Editor: Milton Guillen
On New England dairy farms, daily life orbits around the milking parlor. Here, machinery and cows come together as an exploitation mechanism of migrant workers from Central America, consuming their every waking hour and even infiltrating their dreams.
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Milton Guillén is a Nicaraguan filmmaker, editor, and the senior programmer for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute in Maine, USA. His work explores the cinematic intersections of radical collaborative non-fictions and political dreamscapes.
Fiona Guy Hall is a multimedia artist whose practice in large-scale paper works, sculpture, and film interrogates hierarchies through the politics of intimacy, rhizomes, and dissidence. Her screenings include True/False, Prismatic Ground, and DokuFest, and she has shown at venues such as the Huntington Library, Benton Museum of Art, and Chan Gallery.
Festivals Attended
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival
True/False Film Fest