This documentary was focused on my father and his transition from Guatemala, his home country, to Trenton, NJ, a place where he had no family besides my mother at the time. How the struggles of being an immigrant in a new country where you don’t speak the language, don’t know the culture, don’t know the people around you, and don’t have a job to start with created a necessity of the feeling of being at home. Guatemala was his home for his entire life before he came to the US, but he left behind his family, friends, food, house, and business to start and create a better opportunity for his future family. This family is what made Trenton feel like home for him because that is what he was made the move for. I used his voice instead of doing a voiceover translation because I couldn’t do justice speaking over the struggles he was talking about in the documentary. When I was interviewing my father, I wasn’t expecting him to go into detail about he was leaving behind and what made him feel at home here in the US because I don’t expect a Guatemalan male to spend his childhood in one country and feel comfortable in another. Especially where he was living has had problems against Latino Americans and ICE raids. My documentary reveals that my father’s location isn’t what makes him feel at home, it’s the people around him, those who love and care for him, that make him feel at home.
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