Young Filmmakers in Texas – ‘Hummingbirds’

“Do you have a green card?! I need one!” An official trailer has debuted for an indie documentary film titled Hummingbirds, made by two young filmmakers from Texas telling an autobiographical story of their time living in America. This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, and also played at the True/False, San Francisco, and Boston Independent Film Festivals this spring. Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras tell their own coming-of-age story in Hummingbirds, a punk-rock portrait of the last summer of their youth on the Texas-Mexico border. This is similar to the doc Gasoline Rainbow. Together they transform their hometown of Laredo into a cinematic wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinx. Berlinale Generation’s Grand Jury Prize winner, Hummingbirds celebrates the power of friendship, laughter, and joy as tools of survival and resistance. As they discuss immigration, gender, sexuality, mental health, and class, a moving story of trying to find the joy in uncertainty emerges. Check out the film below. // Continue Reading ›