La Lucha Sigue
(The Fight Continues)

Post-Production:
2018 - Present

People gathered around a table filed with craft materials outside.

La Lucha Sigue (The Fight Continues) is a short animated documentary that centers three immigrant rights leaders who work to shut down the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania, one of three prisons nationwide that had detained immigrant children and families.

Behind the Scenes

Photo Credits

BTS production photos - Erika Ramirez
Photo 10 & 11 from left to right - courtesy of Doc Society
Additional photos - Melissa Beatriz

Grants & Labs

  William Penn Foundation 
  2025

  Art is PHL
  2022

  Scribe Video Center - Philadelphia Independent Media Fund
  2022

  Independence Public Media Foundation
  2020

  Doc Society Good Pitch Local grant
  2019

  Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant
  2019

  Immigration in Full Frame: Reimagining Migration, The Public VR Lab
  2017

  Sundance Institute New Frontier Philadelphia Day Lab intensive
  2017

Pitches & Rough Cut Screening Invitations

  Philadelphia Latino, A Film Festival Works-In-Progress
  2019

  Center for Experimental Ethnography launch at UPenn
  2019

  Doc Society Good Pitch Local Philadelphia
  2018

  Double Exposure Film Festival Pitch + Access
  2018

  International Documentary Association: Getting Real '18 - REAL TALKS Round Tables
  2018

Team & Crew

Director: Melissa Beatriz
Producer: Shannon Sun-Higginson
Cinematographer: Aidan Un
Second Camera: Ty Burdenski
Gaffer: Ty Burdenski
Production Assistant: Erika Ramirez-Lorenzo
Editor: Chen-Yi Wu
Assistant Editor: Erika Ramirez-Lorenzo
Music Consultant: Gabriel Furtado