La Tierra de Sueños

is a poetic short film about migration, memory, and ancestral dreams. As our communities face ongoing displacement, deportation, and erasure, this story uplifts our communities resilience and beauty. La Tierra de Sueños is a reminder that our voices, art and truths belong and matter.

Mission

Our mission is to create cinematic storytelling that honors the lives of immigrants, uplifts marginalized voices, and reclaims narratives too often silenced. Through this work, we aim to spark reflection, inspiration, conversation, empowerment and healing within our communities and beyond.

La Tierra de Sueños | Land of Dreams is not just a film, it’s a homecoming. This is a story rooted in the Brown immigrant experience where migration is not just a dream, but a journey of memory, identity, and longing. It’s about the quiet courage it takes to start over, and the deep love that fuels that leap. Telling this story is honoring that lived experience. May it be remembered forever.

I wrote this film from my own family's story, from the duality of leaving and belonging, from the ache of separation and the joy of becoming. It's a reminder that every step forward is guided by those who walked before us. La Tierra de Sueños is soft, powerful, and necessary. A testament to the resilience of our communities, and a celebration of our right to dream boldly in Mexico, California, New York and across the globe.

Tierra de Sueñosis a poetic reclamation of the immigrant dream. It’s for those caught between worlds: between what was left behind and what is being built now. It is a reminder that even in leaving, we carry power, and that we, as immigrants and children of immigrants, deserve to dream out loud. It is our right.

About the Team

Katherine Bahena-Benitez - Writer, Producer

Katherine is a queer Mexican Indigenous multidisciplinary artist, bicoastal between New York City and California. Katherine is an actor, writer, director, filmmaker, producer, teaching artist and model. Katherine studied at the American Conservatory Theater, California State University Sacramento, the Juilliard School, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and Broadway Advocacy Coalition at Columbia University. Katherine has been featured in Vogue, HipLatina, Remezcla, Chillhouse, Netflix, Fenty, VoyageLA, Chillhouse, YITTY, Apostrophe and Reclamation Magazine. Katherine is a proud Miranda Family Fellow Alumni, Queer Art Fellow Alumni and an Emergenyc Artist Alumni.

Jessica Garcia - Director

Jesse is a Queer Latina storyteller, writer and director. Since graduating from UC Merced with a Bachelors in English, Jessica has dove into the art of storytelling as a Writer and Video Producer for mitú, and Creative Producer for MyCode. Altogether, the videos she has produced and directed have a total of over 20 million views, filled with content that will make you cry, laugh or a little bit of both.

Josslyn Glenn - Producer

Josslyn is a Los Angeles County born Belizean and Chicana transgender producer, writer, spokesperson, and film curator dedicated to promoting nuanced representations of queer and trans people of color who have historically been under- and misrepresented in the media. She has produced award-winning branded, editorial, scripted, and unscripted projects screening internationally, such as Soul of a Nation Presents The Freedom To Exist with Elliot Page.

Elizabeth Uribe- Co-Producer

Elizabeth is a creative artist born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles. A lover of the arts, an adventurer, and an old soul! Her preferred art mediums are collage, mixed-media, and film & media, but she also loves to experiment with new or unconventional materials. Elizabeth’s enthusiasm for film & media has led her to work with entities such as PBS, Crimson Edge Productions, Fierce Mitú, and Independent filmmakers. Her roles have ranged from production assistant, producer, and program coordinator. Her current adventures include advocating for the arts and coordinating arts and culture programs, as well as producing stories that reflect her family and community.

Supporting La Tierra de Sueños is a commitment to new voices, to truth-telling, and to art that dares to desire a different world. Because when our most vulnerable are harmed, we are all impacted and together, we can shift culture, not just mirror it. This is your chance to amplify a story that hasn’t been told like this before, urgent, beautiful, tender, rooted in truth and lived experience. Years from now, we’ll look back and say: in the midst of uncertainty, we still dared to dream and speak out loud. We still dared to create liberating and impactful art. To that I say, we don't need to build alone. Let’s build this world together.

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