Short of the Week
Making it in America
Directed by Joris Debeij · 2014
Salvadoran immigrant Alma Velasco recounts her journey to the United States and her working life in a Los Angeles garment factory.
An intimate first-person portrait of one immigrant woman's journey and the labor behind the American dream.
Alma Velasco, an El Salvadorian immigrant, recounts her transition to the United States.
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