No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here)
Post-Production
Short | Nonfiction | 19’ | 2024 | U.S.A | Digital


A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.

Much like the people it is about, No se ve desde acá is suspended in that stasis between arriving and finding belonging, moving associatively through observational vignettes in contemporary Miami, juxtaposed with a disruptive collection of video and sound archives that range as far back as the 1930’s, revealing an obsession with American individualism and collective uncertainty as questions arise for immigrants about cultural identity, individualism and economic opportunity.

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*2023 Carole Fielding Grant Awardee

Selections

Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film, ZINEBI, 2024 
Bogotá Short Film Festival, Bogoshorts, 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2024
Immigration Film Forum, Washington D.C., 2024
Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2024
Festival of Moving Image London, FOMI, 2024
Videotitlán, Festival de Video Experimental, 2024
Cinefestival San Antonio, 2024
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, 2024
Festival Universitario de Cine y Audiovisuales, Equinoxio, 2024
Lost River Film Festival, 2024
Muestra de Cine Documental de Cali, Borondoc, 2024
Cine+Mas SF, Roxie Theater, 2024
Bridge Video Chicago, 2024
IDFA, Docs for Sale, 2024
Muestra Audiovisual Javeriana, Ventanas, 2024


A film by
Enrique Pedráza-Botero 

Producers
Faye Tsakas
Enrique Pedráza-Botero

Consulting Producers
Melissa Fajardo
Sara Archambault

Production Assistant & Location Sound
Sruti Visweswaran

Technical Support
Christopher Nguyen
Joel Rakowski

Sound Mix
Dan Olmsted

Color Grading
Robert Arnold

Music Supervisor
Enrique Pedráza-Botero 

Faculty Advisors
Natalia Almada
Rodrigo Reyes
Srđan Keča

Made with the support of:
The Maiken Baird and Timothy Luke Fund
UFVA Carole Fielding Grant
Pacific Pioneer Fund

Produced in the Documentary Film M.F.A. Program
Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University