One question that consistently comes up for us as a collective is, “What would life look like without borders?” We believe a post-border world is possible, and we are always striving to reimagine what that reality could look and feel like.
ENTRE is an artist-run creative cooperative that focuses on the creation, exhibition, and preservation of community-made cinema, documentary, and video art. Located in the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, ENTRE’s mission is to provide access, knowledge, and skills in the realm of filmmaking, inviting more voices to document, share, and archive the vast narrative of US-Mexico border communities. As an archive, ENTRE focuses on the collection and preservation of home movies and oral histories from the region, crucial components that provide insight into our collective past through the archiving of time, place, and history. As a film center, we host weekly screenings of independent and otherwise marginalized aspects of cinema and lead skills-based workshops focusing on filmmaking and visual arts.
C. Díaz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and radical archivist from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and a cofounder of ENTRE. Their work explores the relationship between cerebral landscapes and the natural environment through the weaving of social practice, experimental cinematic techniques, and the reimagining of archives.
Andres Sanchez (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Rio Grande Valley and a cofounder of ENTRE. Over the last twelve years, Andres’s work in the RGV has focused on the development of regional community consciousness by building intergenerational networks of artists and community organizers, leading to expansion of access to alternative arts programming and resources.
Monica A. Sosa (she/her) is a left-handed, segunda-lovin’ domestica designer and nesting aficionado. She is an arts administrator by profession, and community organizer and fronteriza de corazón. Monica currently serves as the Boca Chica, Corazón Grande Project Curatorial Manager at ENTRE and as the board administrator for Centro Por La Justicia/Southwest Public Workers Union.