5Q's w/Yehuda Sharim "El Ojo Comienza En La Mano" Director
QUESTION#1: Can you describe your film in one sentence?: El Ojo Comienza En La Mano is a fist full with colors and visions
QUESTION#2: What would you like the BSFF audience to know about your film that they wouldn't consider from it's title?: El Ojo Comienza En La Mano tells the story of so many among us, workers who are never only workers, campensios who are never only campensinos, migrant workers who are never only migrant (or immigrant or undocumented) workers
QUESTION#3: Can you tell us about yourself and your filmmaking career?: I am the son of a farmer who worked in the fields from age nine to his late seventies.
I am the son of a man who never held a camera.
QUESTION#4: What have you learned in the process of making your film?: Beauty is more than a word; it is more about dignity and the way we choose to dedicate our lives to a greater goal, a vision that is bigger than ME, as exemplified in Lorena Alvarado's poetry and Ruben A. Sanchez's artwork
QUESTION#5: What's does the future hold for this film and you?: More and more film festivals and then community venues - from Mainz to Paris - but more importantly this film is a beginning of friendship and continuous collaboration with Ruben and Lorena....
