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NEWS

Berks County Immigrant Detention Center is FINALLY CLOSED!

Screening at SOMArts as part of the CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art Exhibit

WITF Harrisburg broadcasts “Las Madres de Berks”

WHYY broadcasts “Las Madres de Berks”

WHYY Essay- Las Madres de Berks: Stories of detained immigrant families — and the fight to shutter Pa.’s oldest family prison

Radio Times interviews filmmaker Michelle Angela Ortiz

WHYY/ NPR- Three years after famous hunger strike, las Madres de Berks reunite to grieve one of their own

REMEZCLA- The Philadelphia Latino Film Festival features “Las Madres de Berks” Documentary

The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston- A Wall is a Wall- Short Film Series presents “Las Madres de Berks”

THE MODERN ART NOTES PODCAST- Interview with filmmaker Michelle Angela Ortiz

JUST FILMS in Pittsburgh presents “Las Madres de Berks”

AL DIA Newspaper- “Documentary about immigrant mothers detained at Berks premieres in Philadelphia”

Philadelphia Inquirer- “It’s Mother’s Day, but for detained immigrant women and children, new film shows, that’s no holiday”