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Director
  
Rebecca Cammisa

Initial DVD release
  
January 25, 2011

Producer
  
Rebecca Cammisa

Country
  
United States

8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Music director
  
James Lavino

Duration
  

Language
  
EnglishSpanish

Which Way Home movie poster

Release date
  
January 31, 2009 (2009-01-31)

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Tagline
  
They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones.

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Which Way Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Rebecca Cammisa. The film follows several children who are attempting to get from Mexico and Central America to the United States, on top of a freight train that crosses Mexico known as "La Bestia" (The Beast). Cammisa received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to make the documentary in 2006. The film premiered on HBO on August 24, 2009.

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Synopsis

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Each year, thousands of Latin American migrants travel hundreds of miles to the United States, with many making their way on the tops of freight trains. Roughly five percent of those traveling alone are children. As the United States continues to debate immigration reform, the documentary Which Way Home looks the issue through the eyes of children who face the harrowing journey with enormous courage and resourcefulness.

Characters

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  • Kevin: A fourteen-year-old boy trying to reach America to be able to support his mother back in Honduras. Eventually, Quickly finds out that life there is equally difficult in different ways.
  • Fito: A thirteen-year-old boy trying to find work in America. He leaves his hometown in Honduras with Kevin, also hoping to find a better life away from his grandmother and absent mother.
  • Yurico: A seventeen-year-old boy, who leaves Chiapas, Mexico in hopes of finding a family that will adopt him in the US. Having no family, he lives on the streets begging in Chiapas and strikes up a close friendship with Fito on the journey to the border. He struggles with an addiction to huffing glue.

    • Won

    Which Way Home ACE REFLECTIONS

  • Emmy, 2010 - Outstanding Informational Programming-Long Form

    • Nominated

    Which Way Home PopMatters

  • Academy Award 2010 - Best Documentary Feature
  • Spirit Award 2010 - Best Documentary

    • Soundtrack

    About Credits Which Way Home

    An excerpt from the soundtrack (heard at 0:07:10 and again at 1:06:00) by James Lavino has been adopted by the Turner Classic Movies network to accompany the introduction trailer to feature film presentations in 2016.


    Riding the Rails Which Way Home Traces a Treacherous Journey

    About The Making of the Film Which Way Home

    References

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