Wild Birds
Short Films
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2m 27s
“Wild Birds” takes a poetic approach in raising awareness to some of the main issues concerning Latinx communities: home, forced immigration, and “belonging”. It takes place in Highlandtown (and its surrounding neighborhoods), known to be one of the most culturally rich areas in Baltimore that provides a fragment of Latin America to one of the largest Latinx communities in MD.
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