Mayan Voices: American Lives
- Media type
- Film
Mayan Voices: American Lives · Mayan Voices: American Lives · MOVIE
About this title
Following the award-winning TODOS SANTOS CUCHUMATAN and TODOS SANTOS: THE SURVIVORS, MAYAN VOICES: AMERICAN LIVES explores the everyday life of a community of indigenous Mayan indians who fled Guatemala's political violence in 1981 and settled in the United States. Set in Indiantown, Florida, a small agricultural town near West Palm Beach, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, the film contrasts the experiences of families who came as refugees ten years earlier, with the struggles of those continuing to arrive in search of better lives. It demonstrates the impact 5,000 new immigrants with a foreign language and culture is having on the still predominantly white community.