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South Texas-shot film Broken Land explores humanity, difficult choices along the border

The feature film, which follows the story of a rancher who accidentally shoots a young migrant woman, begins streaming Friday.

While spending summers on his grandparents’ cattle ranch in Freer, 60 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, writer-director Joseph T. Walker often saw migrants crossing through the South Texas brush country, driven by hopes of a better life in America. When migrants knocked on the screen door asking for water, his grandfather never turned them away. […]

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