ÁGUILAS / Film School Radio interview with Co-directors Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre

The eye-opening documentary film from co-directors Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre, AGUILAS, tells the story of the Águilas del Desierto, a group of volunteers who look for migrants who go missing crossing the border—often finding only their remains. Once a month, along the scorching southern desert border in Arizona, one group of searchers, the Aguilas del Desierto, set out to recover missing loved ones. These volunteers comprised of construction workers, gardeners, domestic laborers by trade, carry out their solemn task. Águilas poetically lays bare the tragic reality of migrant death by venturing deep into the wilderness of the borderlands. Co-directors Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre join us for a conversation on this little known story of selfless service, the United States policy of deliberately funneling refugees into the most dangerous terrain along our shared border and thousand of people who’s remains are found and the thousands more who the desert will never give us back. For more information go to: gonella-productions.com/aguilas For news and updates go to: aguilasdocumentary.com  Watch now at: youtube.com/ÁGUILAS Watch now at: newyorker.com/watch/Aquilas