Official Invite: Puerto Rico Film Festival 2024
Official Selection: Syracuse International Film Festival 2024
Best Student Film: Vieques Human Rights Film Festival 2025
Selección Oficial: Isla Verde 2025
Official Selection: Enviornmental Film Festival in Washington, DC 2025
Selección Oficial: FCDHV 2025


Between the breathtaking wonder of Niagara Falls and the aquamarine beaches of Salinas Harbor, an outsider might not see the crisis below the surface... 

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Clear air, water, and land are not guaranteed to the residents subjected to the generational cycle of environmental failure. Where the

highest-paying jobs cause cancer and blight have plagued the town, the communities assemble around collective action for health, hope, and resurgence. Produced by students from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, this remote collaboration highlights powerful stories of environmental justice from Niagara Falls, New York to Salinas, Puerto Rico. 

-SYNOPSIS-

Men looking at Niagara mural
Smoke stacks in Niagara
Eagle-eye view of Niagar homes
Sunset over Canadian bordera across from Niagara
Puerto Rican woman pointing towards the factory
"Smoke Free Property" sign in front of a Nigara factory releasing smoke into the air
Woman pointing to map of her neighborhood in Puerto Rico
Birds-eye view of Salinas
Man holding up a polarid of his deceased family member
Volunteers planting a tree
Man taking footage of smoke stacks in Niagara
Syracuse team working in the editing room
Student using visual marker to start interview filming
Students behind the camera duirng a Salinas interview
Students behind the camera in an at-home interview
Students behind the camera during an at-home interview
Woman being interviewed in Salinas
Students behind the camera duirng a home interview
Cameras surrounding a man being interviewed in his Niagara home
Student working sound equipment during an at-home interview

-ABOUT THE PROJECT-

A Tale of Two Cities: Reclaiming Niagara Falls and Salinas was produced through innovative collaboration from students separated by more than 1,600 miles apart. From ideation to deliverable: the partnership between team members at Newhouse and Sagrado was fully remote. Canon played a key role in supporting this connection through its AMLOS (Activate My Line of Sight) technology. 

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Film team memebrs taking at selfie at the Syracuse International Film Fest
Fillm Poster on a blurred backgroudn of the Newhouse building
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“SU, Puerto Rican students collaborate in environmental justice film”

“Innovative Newhouse Collaboration With Support from Canon USA Leads to New Documentary”

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”Estudiantes de Sagrado y Syracuse University ganan premio en el Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Vieques”

Film teams on the red carpet at a film festival
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A Tale of Two Cities Film

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Environmental Injustive Anywhere is Environmental Injustice Everywhere

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