La Camioneta The Journey of One American School Bus (2012)

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala where they are repaired repainted and resurrected as the brightlycolored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day Since 2006 nearly 1000 camioneta drivers and farecollectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its transformative journey a journey between North and South between life and death and through an unfolding collection of moments people and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live