Beth Bird

Beth Bird is a documentary filmmaker whose work engages vital contemporary social-issues. Her first feature-length film, Everyone Their Grain Of Sand (2004), won the 2005 Target Award for Best Documentary at its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Other films include D2KLA (2000), which documents clashes between the police and protesters outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in August, 2000, and Love Knows No Borders (1997), which examines discrimination in U.S. immigration law against lesbians and gay men. Her work has screened nationally and internationally, including at the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival), Vienna, Austria; InSITE 2005, Tijuana, Mexico; the Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA; Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany; the Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic; The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA and at the UN International Conference on Women, Huairou, China. (12/05)

Everyone Their Grain of Sand
A film by Beth Bird, 2005, 87 min., Color
This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s attemp...