Hollywood Director Teams Up with DREAMers

DREAM Act activists and  Hollywood filmmaker Davis Guggenheim are teaming up together through a contest being launched by the organization The Dream is Now to gain support for the undocumented youth. College and university students across the nation will have the opportunity to voice their views on immigration reform. The contest will run all through March until April 5.

The contest is open to both documented and undocumented participants, who are invited to submit videos of their personal stories and experiences. Once all the material is collected, Guggenheim will direct and ultimately put together a documentary with different snippets of the untold stories of students who are do not have legal status in the U.S.

“For some of these students, this is the first time that they have really talked about this publicly, about the stigma,” Ruben Elias Canedo Sanchez, research and mobilization coordinator for the Educational Opportunity Program at the University of California at Berkeley, told Fox News Latino.

Different versions of the DREAM Act have failed in Congress. Taking initiative, The Dream is Now also will set up petitions on all campuses to try and get the Dream Act passed in Congress.The school that gets the most signatures will get to screen the documentary and a selected group of their students will get to travel to Washington D.C. for its official premiere.

Sanchez said that the campaign “is an all-inclusive effort” with the active support of other organizations. Organizations such as Rosario Dawson’s and Wilmer Valderrama’s Voto Latino are already on board.

“We are excited to partner up with organizations doing social justice work such as comprehensive immigration, LGBTQ rights, education, human rights, and beyond,” he added. “It will require all of us coming together to pass the federal Dream Act as part of the larger comprehensive immigration reform.”