Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together they show that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop, audiences can begin to absorb the U.S. government’s role in developing and implementing policies that have kept over 1300 children without confirmed reunifications years later, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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- NBC News Studios, Participant, Fourth Floor Productions, Moxie Pictures
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Gabriela Cartol as Self
Diego Armando Lara Lagunes as Self
Jacob Soboroff as Self
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Errol Morris · Director
Paul Leonard-Morgan · Composer
Igor Martinović · Cinematographer
Steven Hathaway · Editor
Robert Fernandez · Producer
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