Witnessing His Life Story: Rodrigo Reyes Interviews the Subject of His Doc, Sansón and Me

During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. With no permission to interview him, Sansón and Reyes worked together over a decade, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón's childhood--featuring members of Sansón’s own family. The resulting film, Sansón and Me, captures the developing fri...