Canadian Premiere • Grand Prize Competition

Letters from the Other Side interweaves video letters carried across the U.S. / Mexico border by the film director with the personal stories of women left behind in Mexico. Looking at the lives of the people most affected by today's failed immigration and trade policies, the film tells the complex story of families torn apart by economics, communities dying and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it.

Selection
San Diego Latino Film Festival, 2006 ; San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, 2006 ; The Haifa International Film Festival, Israel, 2006 ; The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2006 ; The Boston Latino International Film Festival, 2006.

Heather Courtney
Heather Courtney is a filmmaker, cinematographer and photographer based in Austin, Texas. Prior to receiving her graduate degree in film, Heather spent eight years writing and photographing for the United Nations and several refugee and immigrant rights organizations, including in the Rwandan refugee camps after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.