Juan Castaneda

Filmmaker and Creative Director @ Human Pictures

Far from the horrors at the US border, one family seeks safety and heals from the past, while bearing the weight of an uncertain future. PAPER CHILDREN goes beyond the headlines to the subtle, intimate reality of four siblings who fled gang violence in Honduras to face the terrifying, labyrinth-like US asylum process. The film begins where most immigrant stories hope to end-with a family who has been reunited-but for how long remains to be seen.

Paper Children

An undocumented, deaf Latina prays to keep the devil at bay; after a police checkpoint turned awry takes her on a downward spiral into the underworld hiding beneath Miami.

American Diablo

A photographer battling mental illness must confront death to save her lover.

MAGOS: An Impossible Door

In DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, the brutal murder of a Dominican park ranger becomes the metaphor for increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation.

Juan Castaneda

Filmmaker and Creative Director @ Human Pictures

American Diablo

Paper Children

MAGOS: An Impossible Door

Death by a Thousand Cuts