ILIANA SOSA
What We Leave Behind (Lo Que Dejamos Atrás)
(Mexico, USA, 2022, 71 min)
Produced by Emma D. Miller & Iliana Sosa

Filmmaker will be present for the Q&A virtually.

For decades, filmmaker Iliana Sosa’s grandfather Julián has traveled by bus from Mexico to visit family in the US. Now 89 and unable to make the journey, Julián begins construction on a new house in Mexico that he says will be for the whole family. What We Leave Behind (Lo Que Dejamos Atrás) follows Julián in the twilight of his life, as his granddaughter pieces together how their transnational family has built and rebuilt home over decades of separation.

Iliana Sosa is a documentary and narrative fiction filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. She co-produced the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Building the American Dream (SXSW 2019) and was field producer for the Emmy-nominated POV documentary series And She Could Be Next. What We Leave Behind. Her first documentary feature, won the Louis Black “Lone Star” Award and Fandor New Voices Award at SXSW 2022. Iliana was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020 and one of DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” in 2021.