Press and Awards

Awards

RISING VOICES AWARD of the Portland Film Festival

We are so honored to win the Rising Voices Award from the Portland Film Festival! Check out this link to watch the ceremony and this article to see the award announcement.

First Time Home is honored to receive the Documentary Short Award from imagineNATIVE! Read more about the award here.

Spotlight Gold Award

First Time Home was selected for the Spotlight Gold Award! Read more about the Spotlight Film Awards here.

First Time Home was selected as an Honorable Mention - Best Documentary at the Global Film Festival Awards in Los Angeles! Read more about the award here.

 

First Time Home was selected for the Best Youth Film at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Read more about the award here.

We are thrilled that First Time Home won the Ledo Matteoli Award at the Humboldt International Film Festival!

First Time Home was selected as an Honorable Mention for Best Short in the SVA Film & Media Festival

Press

  1. American Anthropologist: Immigrant Farmworker Youth’s Right to Aspire: A Review of Two Films

  2. Visual Anthropology: Mesoamerican Indigenous Youth in the United States

  3. The Easterner: Short Film ‘First Time Home’ Inspires and Illuminates

  4. The Madera Tribune: ‘First Time Home’

  5. La Jornada: El lunes inicia la Semana de Cine Migrante en la Cineteca Nacional (On Monday the Migrant Film Week begins at the Cineteca Nacional)

  6. Civil Eats: A New Film Documents the Immigrant Farmworker Journey

  7. Radio Bilingüe: Interview on First Time Home / Primera Vez en Casa on "Linea Abierta" of Radio Bilingüe of Fresno and Oakland, CA

  8. The Fresno Bee: 4 children of Triqui immigrants co-directed a film

  9. The Spokesman Review: ‘First Time Home’: four cousins search their roots

  10. The Fig Tree: Seth Holmes produces film with farm workers and indigenous teens’ families

  11. Cascadia Daily News: Young filmmakers cross borders to find family

  12. goSkagit: Award-winning film by local women to be shown at Lincoln Theatre

  13. KFCF Fresno: Down on the Farm Interview

  14. San Diego Union Tribune: They visited an ailing grandfather in Oaxaca, and found pieces of their own identities in the process

  15. USA Today: Can movies help save the world's dying languages? New wave of Indigenous films share untold stories

  16. Smithsonian Museum Folklife: Legacy through the Filmmaker’s Lens: Insights from Mother Tongue Directors

  17. NPR Valley Public Radio Documentary film by Madera teens wins at Portland Film Festival

  18. NPR Oregon Public Broadcasting: Documentary explores the meaning of family across borders by Elizabeth Castillo

  19. Skagit Valley Herald: "First Time Home" — young filmmakers document lives of family in U.S., Mexico

  20. The Spokesman-Review: Local award-winning film ‘First Time Home’ shines light on plight of farmworkers

  21. Portland Film Festival Meet the Directors Panel: Check out the Portland Film Festival Meet the Directors Panel focused on the Indigenous Voices films! First Time Home is so happy to be featured on the panel!

  22. Portland Film Festival Indigenous Families Separated by Borders, United Panel