The Undocumented Document Themselves with Set Hernandez Rongkilyo

This week, from deep in the San Fernando Valley, we’re joined by filmmaker Set Hernandez Rongkilyo. A passionate storyteller from a young age, Set’s early love of Anime and desire to be an animator transitioned into becoming a passionate storyteller, through documentary film and now other forms as well. Set discusses their resistance to approaching documentary subjects from a supposedly neutral perspective, as well as the tropes of tragedy porn and binary narratives of the undocumented immigrant experience, and highlights some key influences and inspirations for the way they’ve worked differently in their film COVER/AGE and continue to do so with work-in-progress Unseen. They also detail their work with the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, striving to increase representation behind as well as in front of the camera, and in the audience, leaving us with the beautiful thought that storytelling is not just an act of imagination, but also an act of remembering.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, from Assata: An AutobiographyThe move to decolonize documentaryThe complicated story of Nanook of the NorthEpisode 70: with Sue DingFilm: JaddolandDisclosure – documentary by Sam FederThe North Star – Frederick Douglas newspaperBlack Panther NewspaperCOVER/AGE filmFavianna Rodriquez - Center for Cultural PowerSasha Costanza-Chock: Out of the Shadows, Into the StreetsBy Any Media Necessary - DREAMing CitizenshipJulio Selgado and Jesús Iñiguez: Dreamers Adrift - Undocumented and AwkwardTam Tran films:  Lost and Found; Seattle Underground RailroadUndocumedia Nancy MezaThe Undeportables sketch comedyMiko Revereza experimental documentaryAlan Pelaez Lopez spoken word/visual artistUndocumented Filmmakers CollectiveBoyhood, Richard Linklater’s film 12 years in the makingGetting Real – Int'l Doc Assn conferenceFirelight MediaNetflix series: Living UndocumentedRahi Hasan, UFC co-founderUFC Panel at Black Star Film FestivalDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai SmithIndia’s Grassroots ComicsStacy Smith’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative researchEpisode 25: Why do we need more critics of color? (with Jeff Yang & Mauricio Mota)Episode 26: Reimagining the ecology of cultural criticism (with Elizabeth Mendez Berry & Carolina A. Miranda)Episode 27: Critics of color: The added value of subtleties (with Eric Deggans)Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]!Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––