Don't Tell Anyone

Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) is a 2015 Peabody Award-winning documentary film directed by Mikaela Shwer focusing on immigrant activist Angy Rivera as she shares her parallel journey of coming out of the shadows as undocumented and a survivor of sexual abuse. The film premiered as part of PBS's POV series on September 21, 2015[1] and was a co-production with Latino Public Broadcasting[2] with additional support from ITVS.[3]

Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)
Directed byMikaela Shwer
Music byBen Messlebeck
Production
Producer(s)
Katie O'Rourke
  • Alexandra Nikolchev
  • Mikaela Shwer
Cinematography
  • Arianna Lapenne
  • Autumn Eakin
Editor(s)Mikaela Shwer
Production company(s)Portret Films
DistributorPOV Women Make Movies
Release
Original release
  • September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21)

Background

There were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2014.[4] As of 2013 the Obama administration deported a record 438,421 undocumented immigrants in the U.S.,with more than 2 million deportations since Obama took office.[5]

Synopsis

Since the age of 4,[6] Angy Rivera has lived in the United States with a secret that threatens to upend her life: She is undocumented. Now 24 and facing an uncertain future, Rivera becomes an activist for undocumented youth with a popular advice blog, Ask Angy,[7] and a YouTube channel boasting more than 27,000 views.[8] She steps out of the shadows a second time to share her story of sexual abuse and how it shapes her and her mother's journey through the visa process.[9][10]

Production

Shwer first reached out to Rivera after reading an article about her in the New York Daily News.[11] She followed Angy for the next three years including through the process of applying for a U visa, which is set aside for victims of crimes (and their immediate family members) who have suffered substantial mental or physical abuse and are willing to assist law enforcement and government officials in the investigation or prosecution of the criminal activity.[12]

gollark: I see.
gollark: What's that using, then?
gollark: If you're talking about contact tracing, there was a proposal for how to do it in a decent privacy-preserving way.
gollark: You seemed to be suggesting that open source was somehow worse than closed source software for security, which I disagree with.
gollark: <@!707673569802584106> Basically everything uses open source software in some form. If your security is compromised by people knowing how some component of your application works, it is not very secure in the first place.

References
  1. https://www.pbs.org/pov/donttellanyone/
  2. "LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING". lpbp.org.
  3. "Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)". itvs.org.
  4. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/24/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/
  5. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013/
  6. http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c923.shtml
  7. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ask-angy-the-fearless-activist-undocumented-advice-column
  8. https://www.youtube.com/user/AskAngy
  9. https://www.pbs.org/pov/donttellanyone/
  10. "In The Country Illegally, An Immigrant Takes A Big Risk For A Visa". WNYC. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  11. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/retired-mta-worker-sees-news-story-pays-immigrant-college-tab-article-1.1004840
  12. http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/beginning/putting-human-face-immigration-debate


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