Hummingbirds
Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director Estefanía “Beba” Contreras and co-producer Dawn Valadez!
Co-presented by BAVC Media, KQED Live, RoxCine, & POV
In Hummingbirds, directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinx. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance.