a REAL JOB, follows 13-year-old Mia, who longs to walk home with the cool girls at school but with ICE raids taking over her neighborhood, her mother Cecilia will not let her out of her sight.
This story is very special to my heart because it involves so much of the feelings I felt as I was growing up undocumented in this country. Back then there weren't stories, films, or shows being told and made about people like myself who were living in the shadows and trying to assimilate. I often felt as if I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders with the constant fear that life, as I knew it in the U.s., would vanish before my eyes. Mia's story is one like many who have found it hard to accept themselves and the positions they have been placed in while living in this country. to its core, A real job is a story about wanting to fit in when you're growing up in uncertainty and learning how to deal with the anxiety that surrounds life in the shadows. this journey has taught me that I need to continue telling stories about my community and that you can be undocumented and unafraid. sigue pa'lante.
- n.romero
