Tagline

 “DeNadie is a film made with heart and intelligence and is a lesson in narrative filmmaking, even though the director and his crew never studied film and had never made a film before…De Nadie is not merely a cold document nor a type of sociology, but neither is it a tremendous exhibition. It is a story of persecuted human lives and attacks on their deepest hopes. ”       
                -Luis García Orso, Film Critic

Plot Summary

Prepare for the journey as an unknown, a nothing, a no one. Prepare to leave everything behind and travel alone with a vague sense of diretion and the echo of your family in your ears. Prepare to face the same intimidation and corruptive danger in Mexico as you will eventually find 1,300 miles north, when you cross into the United States-if you live through it.

As rich nations tighten their borders, the poorest of people with the nobelest of intentions continue to blur them in search for liberties too universally held to be claimed by any flag. Through this struggle, we are drawn into De Nadie, and through their intimate lens and enduring crew, we find ourselves confronted with a story of immigration we only thought we understood. The first-time filmmakers, including 22-year old director Tin Dirdamal, display moving photographic grace and sophisticated understanding of their subjects as they follow their seach for the sustenance their native countries cannot provide. These personal stories force deeper understandings of the United States' border crisis, while exposing hypocrisies in a Mexican culture faced with an equally uncomfortable intolerance. All this from a film which brings the voices of those most deeply affected into the open.