If You Could Walk in My Shoes 2016
Distributed by Third World Newsreel, 545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 550, New York, NY 10018; 212-947-9277
Produced by Ricardo Causo
Directed by Ricardo Causo
DVD, color, 27 min.
College - General Adult
Biography, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, Politics, Social Problems
Date Entered: 07/27/2018
Reviewed by Brad Eden, Ph.D., Dean of Library Services, Valparaiso UniversityThis film is a short biography of Ecuadorian Roberto Marquez, an undocumented immigrant who came to the United States in the late 1990s to escape political and economic challenges. He has been working in New York City as a cobbler with his wife, in the hopes of one day buying their own shoe repair shop. The movie documents the challenges and issues related to modern-day immigration and undocumented immigrants in the United States, showing how one family's issues mirror those of thousands of others. The length of this film makes it ideal to start discussions in high school and higher education classes related to current politics, multiculturalism, and immigration, and could also be used to generate discussion in community-related organizations.