Interview: Barbara Cigarroa The Other Side

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Interview: Barbara Cigarroa – El Otro Lado (The Other Side) | 2019 January Screenwriters Lab

Published on February 21, 2019

Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Barbara Cigarroa who brought – El Otro Lado (The Other Side) to the Sundance Mountain Resort just prior to the launch of the 2019 edition of Sundance. A Mexican-American filmmaker who saw her most recent short Dios Nunca Muere have its world premiere at the 2018 NYFF, she holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University and a BA in English from Yale University.

The Other Side is set in Brownsville, Texas, during the child migration crisis, Lucy, a low-income Mexican American teen, is confronted with her own need for escape when her father decides to sponsor two undocumented minors for money. Here is a quick chat with Barbara Cigarroa during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).