Sanctuary
selection of film & multimedia coverage of the sanctuary movement
Santuario (2018)
SANTUARIO
A documentary short by Christine Delp & Pilar Timpane
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/248045568
Logline: After 24 years of living in the US, a Guatemalan grandmother threatened with deportation takes sanctuary in a North Carolina church.
Film website: santuariofilm.com
Awards
Winner Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at New Orleans Film Festival 2018
Winner Tribeca Film Institute's If/Then American South Pitch 2017
Women in Film / Stella Artois Finishing Fund Grantee 2019
Winner ActNOW Social Action Award at Crested Butte Film Festival 2019
Festival Selections
Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 (World Premiere)
New Orleans Film Festival 2018
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2019
Annapolis Film Festival 2019
Big Sky Film Festival 2019
Indie Grits Film Festival 2019
Cleveland Film Festival 2019
Riverrun International Film Fest 2019
Minneapolis International Film Festival 2019
Independent Film Festival Boston 2019
Crested Butte Film Festival 2019
LongLeaf Film Festival 2019
Middlebury New Filmmakers Film Festival 2019
Over-the-Rhine Film Festival 2019
Hawaii International Film Festival 2019
Cucalorus Film Festival 2019
Southern Screen 2019
Carrboro Film Festival 2019
The 49% Film Festival 2020
A pastor’s message for Advent in sanctuary (2019)
Video for Faith & Leadership Magazine
José Chicas, a native of El Salvador, has lived in the U.S. as an immigrant for over 30 years. But since 2017, the founding pastor of Iglesia Evangelica Jesus el Pan de Vida in Raleigh, North Carolina, has been housed in sanctuary at the School for Conversion in nearby Durham to avoid deportation. Reflecting on Advent and his own long season of waiting, Chicas said, “All human beings are waiting for something.”
Awards
Honorable Mention in the category of documentary shorts from the Associated Church Press 2020
After Samuel Oliver-Bruno’s Deportation, a Sanctuary Community Suffers Together (2018)
“The laws of the land can be wrong. But God’s law says to love,” Des Vignes said. “There is no law against love, and that is what we have been doing for our brother Samuel and his family.”
While a rupture of sanctuary occurred in the CityWell community, there are still four other people in sanctuary in North Carolina and an estimated 50 public cases across the United States.
Juana's story: Seeking sanctuary in a US church (2019)
As immigration policies tighten in the US, two filmmakers document a woman's battle to avoid being separated from her family.