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Honey hasn t seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished.
Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chavez, a young coyote or human trafficker, who convinces Honey he knows of her mother s whereabouts and agrees to take her there for a price. As they make their way through the Oro s brutal no-man s-land they are tracked by Ocho, a teenage bounty hunter determined to recruit Chavez. And then there is Baez,...

Film is often been used to represent the natural landscape and to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even the "green" images shown on screens are ecologically unsustainable production and distribution processes. Noting that celluloid is often composed of petroleum byproducts, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the "hydrocarbon imagination" has been central to the development of film as a medium. Nadia Bozak's innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies leads her to make provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and...

Spanning the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Nadia Bozak s thirteen stories are narrated from the perspective of Shell, the only child of bohemian artisans determined to live off their handicrafts and uphold a left-wing lifestyle. At the age of five, Shell s world is transformed when the family moves into a new house, where she grows up. Over time, she gradually trades her unconventional upbringing for junk food, rock music, and boys. All the while, Shell quietly watches her parents loveless marriage fall apart and learns to survive divorce, weight gain, heartache, and first love.
A funny,...