The East Lansing Film Festival will start up again along with the Lake Michigan Film Festival. One of several films to be shown will be the First Voice Generation documentary film that follows the stories of three Latinx high school students in Holland, Michigan, during an unprecedented global pandemic year. Each student struggles with their identity growing up in a historically Dutch community, feeling they don’t belong because they are a child of Mexican immigrants. They each dream of being the first in their family to go to college, but a year of challenges ensues, with virtual learning and the cost of affording college seeming impossible.
Studio C Theater is located at 1999 Central Park, Okemos, Michigan 48864
Tickets: General Admission $8.00 Seniors and Students $6.00
To purchase tickets: 012-88302 (celebrationcinema.com)
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 1:00pm
Cynthia Martinez is a 2nd generation Mexican American born into a working-class family in Holland, Michigan. She is a mother, wife, writer, producer, and filmmaker. A graduate of Western Michigan University, she set out to work and realized she had stories to tell. With that passion, she enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and completed her Master’s Program in 2012. Her experience includes working for Univision News in Miami and is currently engaged with directing and producing films and media that advocate social justice.
Purchase tickets here: 012-88302 (celebrationcinema.com)
