Inocente

About the Project

Inocente is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age feature documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant, forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past - - a past punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, a defeated mother of four, and an endless shuffle year after year through San Diego’s homeless shelters.

Inocente questions the idea of ‘home’ and shines a light on one of America’s darkest problems. Since the 2008 economic crash, the homeless population is exploding and families are the fastest growing segment – in particular the undocumented. This feature documentary gives you a rare glimpse inside the struggle of how one of the 1.5 million homeless children in the U.S. is living. In some cities, homelessness has reached an unthinkable 1 out of 10.

With the belief that human connection is the necessary catalyst for social change, the goal of this project is to connect audiences to a lionhearted inspiration - a girl who doesn’t have a place to call home, but who is a survivor. Her story, her dreams and her sheer grit will serve as a catalyst - a call to action to help all of the kids she represents.

The Fledgling Fund Impact

The Fledgling Fund is pleased to support Inocente. The film tells a painful and wrenching story that is simultaneously full of beauty, promise and hope. Our hope is that this film will bring this issue back to the minds of Americans and inspire new action and focus on the critical issue of homelessness.