The Sandbox
About the event
In an age defined by mass migration, migrants and refugees stand among the world’s most vulnerable people. Yet their vulnerability is often weaponized, used as an excuse for surveillance and ever-expanding border technologies across land and sea and in the sky. In this urgent, artful debut, director Kenya-Jade Pinto pulls back the curtain on the border industrial machine, revealing how the very technologies sold as protection are used to control, intimidate and sometimes kill migrants and refugees. On the frontlines, people like investigative journalists Lydia Emmanouilidou and search-and-rescue volunteer James Holeman push back by challenging power, confronting brutality and offering a counterweight to the systems they expose. With masterful editing and gorgeous cinematography, The Sandbox is a stark, gripping wake-up call that reveals the human cost of systems of security. Aisha Jamal, Hot Docs
Join director Kenya-Jade Pinto for a special post-screening Q&A.
Kenya-Jade Pinto is an Indo-Kenyan-Canadian storyteller whose training as a lawyer has deepened her practice as a documentarian. Her hyphenated worldview informs her focus on the nuances of our shared human experience in an increasingly interconnected world.
Kenya-Jade has participated in DOC Institute’s Breakthrough Program as well as Hot Docs’ Emerging Filmmaker Program and Incubator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, a Juris Doctor with a specialization in international law, and is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo. In 2021, she was invited to be a National Geographic Explorer.
TICKETS (+HST)
General: $15
Members: $10, $8, FREE
