“Filmmaking that matters. A must see for those who care about the truth.” – Norma E. Cantu
Professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures
University of Texas at San Antonio
“Documentaries like this one are vital for the urgent task of understanding the ongoing struggle over the present and future of New Orleans, and its deeper implications for insurgent labor and the politics of class, race, and citizenship confronting the continuing transformations in the global regime of capital accumulation.” – Dr. Nicholas De Genova
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latino Studies
Colombia University
“Dos Americas is a great tool to help us understand the human effects of failed immigration policies, witness the reconstruction of New Orleans from those who came to help rebuild it, and most importantly, learn from this situation.” – Iris Rodriguez
La Nueva Raza
“Like its earlier documentary Down But Not Out, Upheaval Productions’ latest release, Dos Americas, is a very powerful and disturbing series of portraits of individuals trying to survive in a post-Katrina New Orleans—a landscape of chaos and desolation. While Down But Not Out focused on the disaster itself through interviews of flood victims suffering from the loss of their homes and the breakdown of an entire society deserted by government and insurance companies, it is another form of violence that is revealed with frightening insight in Dos Americas.” – Dr. Oleg Kobtzeff
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society
Assistant Professor, American University of Paris
“Dos Americas is as poignant as it is informative. For my teaching purposes, it will prove to be a valuable tool. From the broader perspective, it provides a new example of the age old problem of racial discrimination. And within the more specific case study, it focuses on how the system tries to benefit from forcing two marginalized groups to compete for scant resources. This is a story that needs to be heard.” – Dr. Adam Spires
Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, Canada
“[Dos Americas] powerfully captures an important aspect of the disaster of the city’s reconstruction programme which, like the storm itself, continues to play itself out within ethnic and racial coordinates. The film is a poignant comment not only on the social divisions deepened by Katrina, but the social movements that these divisions have brought into being. This has implications for disasters zones the world over plagued by economic and racial discrimination.” – Dr. Anna Hartnell
Dept. of American and Canadian Studies
University of Birmingham, UK