Which Way Home

Which Way Home

Directed by	Rebecca Cammisa
Produced by	Rebecca Cammisa
Music by	James Lavino
Cinematography	Lorenzo Hagerman Eric Goethals
Edited by	Pax Wassermann Madeleine Gavin
Production company	Mr. Mudd
Distributed by	HBO Films
Release dates	January 31, 2009 (2009-01-31)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish

Which Way Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Rebecca Cammisa. The film follows several children who are attempting to get from Mexico and Central America to the United States, on top of a train that crosses Mexico known as "La Bestia" (The Beast). Cammisa received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to make the documentary in 2006. The film premiered on HBO on August 24, 2009.

Characters

The list of the main characters are:

Kevin

Kevin is a fourteen-year-old boy trying to reach America to be able to support his mother back in Honduras. Eventually, Kevin is the only one to make it to America, but quickly finds out that life there is equally difficult in different ways.

Fito

Fito is thirteen years old and is trying to find work in America as well. He leaves his hometown in Honduras with Kevin, also hoping to find a better life away from his grandmother and absent mother.

Yurico

Yurico, who is seventeen years old, leaves Chiapas, Mexico in hopes of finding a family that will adopt him in the US. Having no family, he lives on the streets begging in Chiapas and strikes up a close friendship with Fito on the journey to the border. He struggles with an addiction to huffing glue.

Awards and nominations

Won

Emmy, 2010 - Outstanding Informational Programming-Long Form^[1]

Nominated

Academy Award 2010 - Best Documentary Feature
Spirit Award 2010 - Best Documentary^[2]

Soundtrack

An excerpt from the soundtrack (heard at 0:07:10 and again at 1:06:00) by James Lavino has been adopted by the Turner Classic Movies network to accompany the introduction trailer to feature film presentations in 2016.

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References

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