The Mexico/United States border is an area defined by artificial, if also powerful, divisions. aguamiel: secrets of the agave is a documentary film project that focuses on creative collaborations as practices of resistance to globalization's injustices and inequities along this border. aguamiel is about how the imagined and the real come together in this space between two powerful nations. It's about reclaiming the funds of knowledge that reside and inform this space. aguamiel: secrets of the agave is a film about sustaining community, hope, imagination, and the lived knowledges within each of us.

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Funding for this film project has come from the Arizona Commission on the Arts (ACA) as a 2009 Artist Project Grant; the Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) as a 2008 travel grant; the Office of the Provost at Iowa State University as a Diversity Grant; and many individual donors.

Thank you to Herli Vigil, Alma Hernandez, and Susan Benner for their transcription/translation expertise. Additional thanks to Sophia Villarreal-Licona and Elisa Southern for their translation assistance for our earlier trailers.