I saw this article and thought instantly of 13 Months of Sunshine, whose main characters engage in an illegal marriage so one of them can receive a green card. It’s a very real phenomenon, something that happens here all the time.
That is why the film touches such a wide variety of people. Whether Ethiopian or [...]

13 Months of Sunshine has taken over three years to create, with the bulk of shooting taking place on weekends and during the week when the actors’ schedules allowed. After roughly 60% of the film had been shot capturing and editing began. Director Yehdego Abeselom and Editor Jeremiah Lewis would work nights, compiling scenes in [...]