Doors 6:30p
Program 7:00p
Tickets $6
Nov 22, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Between Borders and Voices:
The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz
Co-presented with Cinema Tropical and Color Congress
UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY
UnionDocs, Color Congress — through its Elev8Docs Marketing Initiative — and Cinema Tropical present acclaimed filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz for a special evening of conversation and preview, part of Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz — the first retrospective of the three-time Emmy-nominated director and one of the most incisive voices in contemporary nonfiction media.
With over two decades in independent film, Ruiz will reflect on the collapse of traditional funding, the rise of the creator economy, and the challenges of making meaningful work outside legacy systems. Through film clips and personal insights, he’ll share his “imperfect strategy” for navigating today’s media landscape. The evening includes a sneak peek at Ruiz’s newest project, The Low Season — a hybrid fiction-documentary about a woman from the future who helps immigrant families in present-day Queens. Blending participatory storytelling and speculative fiction, the film opens up bold new possibilities for socially engaged cinema.
Join us for this timely and thought-provoking conversation — and be among the first to experience Ruiz’s daring new work in progress.
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Program
The Low Season
by Bernardo Ruiz
A hybrid fiction-documentary about a woman from the future who helps immigrant families in present-day Queens
Program Duration: 90 mins
Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.
Bios
BERNARDO RUIZ is a three-time Emmy®-nominated documentary filmmaker and a 2024 Documentary Film Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Ruiz has directed and produced five feature-length documentaries, as well as a host of non-fiction television for broadcasters, streamers, and social media platforms.
Born in Guanajuato, Mexico to Mexican and American parents, Ruiz came to the U.S. at age 6 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. During the handycam craze of the 1980s, he made Super8mm films. Ruiz later studied photography with Joel Sternfeld at Sarah Lawrence College, where he also studied writing with the novelist Jerome Badanes.
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Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.
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