The Years of Fierro

Running time: 105 mins

How many execution dates must he live through? Cesar Fierro, a Mexican national, has been on death row in a Texas prison since 1979 for killing an American. Doubt and uncertainty swirl around his case and no one can bring himself/herself to carry out his sentence or free him. Through the decades, his younger brother continues to lament his absence from across the border and the world Santiago left behind. Unable to be shown in the U.S. until now, The Years of Fierro is an aching portrait of a life denied and a family cruelly separated by a corrupt justice system in a world where Mexican lives count for less than American ones. – Pia Chamberlain Sponsored by the Applied Materials Foundation