ALL WE CARRY - A Feature Documentary

Through a family's extraordinary journey, ALL WE CARRY documents life for asylum-seekers in the US.

THE NEED

In order to reach audiences far and wide, we need to finish paying licensing fees. This will FREE THE FILM and allow us to make the impact that we believe the film can make, and we can't think of a more important time to share this story of grief, joy, and hope.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us and cheered us on this far. Now we're asking for your help to get us to distribution.

THE STORY

All We Carry tells the intimate story of one family while humanizing one of the most divisive issues of our time: immigration. Spanning three years of their lives, the film follows a young family—as they flee Honduras on foot and ride in cargo trains across Mexico, claim asylum at the US border, and endure detention before being released to live with extended family in Seattle, Washington. After several months in Seattle, the family’s fortune suddenly changes—a West Seattle synagogue offers to sponsor them, lending the family an empty beachfront home.

As members of the infamous 2018 migrant caravan, Magdiel and Mirna were detained and later released into the US at the height of the family separation scandal.

Now in Seattle, with their immediate needs met, the family is afforded the blessing and burden of processing their trauma, all the while navigating a new culture in a new country. As the family builds unexpected bonds in their new community, their story becomes linked to this Jewish community’s long legacy of defending the right to refuge.

As the young family begins to tentatively establish themselves in their new home, they celebrate the joyous arrival of their newborn daughter, and with that comes the grief that accompanies big life events after the death of their close loved ones back in Honduras. As the family awaits the immigration hearing that will decide their fate, the Trump administration attempts to chip away at America’s asylum system, leaving their future uncertain.

THE IMPACT

Across party lines, asylum and refuge programs are widely viewed as important and worthwhile government programs, but most of the public lacks the information to understand how both actually work, what it’s really like to go through the process, and the ways in which the institutions have been changed and diminished over the years. We plan on taking the film on the road to communities nationwide with two main goals: education and action.

Community Education: Educating the public about the US immigration system and the immigrant experience—especially for asylum-seekers.

Inspiring Action: Inspiring viewers to get involved and support asylees, just as the community that formed around the family we follow has done.

THE TEAM

Cady Voge, Director & DP

Cady is a filmmaker and journalist specializing in character-driven, longform, and vérité storytelling. All We Carry is Cady’s feature directorial debut. Her other directorial credits include two short films, El Cristo Negro (2019) and Ballet In El Salvador is Alcira Alonso (2019). As a filmmaker, she has shot, produced, and directed short films for NBC, The New Humanitarian, and other media outlets across the Americas. She is currently in pre-production on her next feature documentary, which examines one OB/GYN quest to launch a reproductive health clinic in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2022, Cady was selected as a WIF/Sundance Financing Intensive fellow as well as a Film Independent Fast Track fellow.

Cady met the family in the film while covering the migrant caravan in Mexico as a journalist in 2018.

Rachel Clara Reed, Editor

Rachel Clara Reed is a queer mixed-race Chinese-American independent documentarian working on intimate stories about human resilience that challenge common narratives around identity, migration, and culture. Her short film, Somali Night Fever, published with The Guardian and shot in Somaliland, Kenya, and Sweden, tells the story of Somalia’s golden era of music through the stories of two former bandmates and best friends who lost touch during the country’s civil war. It was long-listed and received a special mention at the 2020 One World Media Awards, and has over one million views.

A member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, BIPOC Doc Editors, Across the Cut, the Video Consortium, and the Asian American Documentary Network, Rachel is currently based in London, editing her second and third feature docs.

Laura Pilloni, Producer

Laura is a filmmaker who works towards the representation of marginalized stories. She was the associate producer for the women and human rights documentary Home Truth, which premiered at the 2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS the following year. She went on to associate produce Chavela (Berlinale, Hot Docs 2017) and was a co-producer on Lift (Tribeca 2022, Paramount Pictures). Keeping in line with these impactful films, she was most recently a producer on activist Elle Moxley’s short documentary Black Beauty (Blackstar, Outfest 2022) and is currently producing All We Carry, a feature documentary about a Honduran family seeking asylum in the U.S.

In 2022, she was a fellow for Film Independent’s Fast Track Film Finance Market, as well as for the WIF/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive. She is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.

Laura Tatham, Producer

Laura Tatham is a creative producer committed to telling stories that highlight urgent social justice issues. She is currently producing the feature documentary All We Carry, with several new projects in development. Laura most recently completed the award-winning feature documentary Mama Bears, which premiered in competition at SXSW 2022 and has gone on to screen in 80+ film festivals worldwide. Mama Bears was a co-production of ITVS and had its broadcast debut on Independent Lens in 2023. She also produced the short documentary Black Beauty (Outfest ‘22), which follows activist Elle Moxley in the midst of 2020. In the past eight years she’s worked on numerous award-winning films—as associate producer on the feature documentaries Chavela (Berlinale ‘17) and Dispatches from Cleveland (CIFF ‘17) and as the production office manager for America, a series of silent, narrative shorts (Sundance ‘19).

In 2022 Laura was selected for DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” list. She has been a fellow of the Film Independent Documentary Lab and the WIF/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive.