Jose Antonio Vargas Film 'Documented' Aims to Change Minds About Immigration Roque Planas - The Huffington Post
go to original April 11, 2014

"Documented" is a film written and directed by Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented American--one of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. It is story about a mother, a son and an American journey. (Define American)

Jose Antonio Vargas’ documentary “Documented” is gaining momentum, with theatrical releases planned in 10 U.S. cities before showing on CNN this summer.

Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Huffington Post editor, left the daily news business shortly before coming out publicly as an undocumented immigrant in a 2011 article for The New York Times Magazine. Though many in the media now refer to Vargas as an activist, he remains a storyteller.

Premiering in New York on May 2, “Documented” tells Vargas’s own story against the backdrop of Washington's stalled immigration debate to highlight the pain of family separation and the frustration of unrealized potential weighing on the estimated 11.7 undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

“Culture is about humanizing people,” Vargas told The Huffington Post. “You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement -- the culture changed before the politics did.”

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