Laredoans Silvia del Carmen Castaños and Estefania “Beba” Contreras Solis were slacker, queerdo, artist types with a complicated relationship to the border (to put it mildly), and little film experience, when the cameras began to roll on their film Hummingbirds in 2019. “When we got the Sundance grant to help make the film, I didn’t even know what the f— Sundance was,” Castaños says as Solis laughs on our three-way phone call. “Like, I seriously thought, ¿que es eso? You know what I mean?” I do. As a Laredo native son who has since fled the border to New York City, I’m sure I didn’t know what Sundance was until my college years, when I was living in North Texas. With all respect and admiration to…
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