In accordance with Carnegie Mellon's 2011 International Film Festival theme, 'Faces of Migration,' CMU presents 'Norteado'

Film Description: Fresh, affecting, and slyly humorous, Rigoberto Perezcano's debut feature is the account of one man's dogged determination to win a better life for himself and his family. Andres hails from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico. Like many before him, he engages an unscrupulous, people-trafficking 'coyote' to get him across the U.S. border, but he's inevitably conned and left stranded and cashless in the teeming limbo of Tijuana. Befriended by convenience store owners Ela and Cata, who take him under their wing, Andres shares his deepest feelings. Things get complicated as he is drawn into potentially explosive triangles both with Ela, the store's owner, and her would-be squeeze, Asensio, and with Ela and Cata, who is Ela's young employee.Ultimately, Andres must confront the question: to stay or to go?