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He is only seeing her now because he was recently deported from the U.S., and now he wants to make his way back to New Jersey again to be with his new established family — strangers to Sayra.
“Sin Nombre” a stirring tale of hardship » Scene-Stealers 2009
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The winning students each received a $1,000 scholarship to apply toward post-secondary education, and according to teacher Ms. Sayra Loftus, participation in the program brought out visible changes in her students - a transformation into young, focused, confident businessmen and women as a result of their participation.
Jack E. Kosakowski: Teen Entrepreneurs Show Us the Future of Business Jack E. Kosakowski 2011
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Sayra becomes more embittered and makes a rebellious choice, while Casper is forced to imagine a life that exists outside of the gang.
“Sin Nombre” a stirring tale of hardship » Scene-Stealers 2009
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The winning students each received a $1,000 scholarship to apply toward post-secondary education, and according to teacher Ms. Sayra Loftus, participation in the program brought out visible changes in her students - a transformation into young, focused, confident businessmen and women as a result of their participation.
Jack E. Kosakowski: Teen Entrepreneurs Show Us the Future of Business Jack E. Kosakowski 2011
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The first is Sayra, a young girl from the Honduras.
SIN NOMBRE: screw the issues, let’s make a movie! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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An ardent teenager, Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), travels on foot from her native Honduras into Mexico in the company of her father and uncle.
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You also meet Sayra who is a Honduran teenager who recently reunited with her father and uncle to travel across the Mexican border en route to the New Jersey from which her father had been deported and removed from his wife/children in the states.
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"Sin Nombre" draws its power from a collision of characters: Sayra (played by Paulina Gaitan), a young Honduran woman riding the rails toward the U.S. border with her estranged father and her uncle; and Casper (Edgar Flores), a reluctant gangster whose fate is tied to Sayra's when he violently severs his gang ties.
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Soon his exploits catch up with him, and after a dramatic crossing of paths with Sayra he is forced to flee Mexico, and ends up accompanying Sayra and her family.
SIN NOMBRE: screw the issues, let’s make a movie! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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Comfortable at home, but at risk of being sucked into the poverty that surrounds her, she see a chance for escape when her father returns from the US where he resides illegally and offers to aid Sayra and her older brother on the long and dangerous journey.
SIN NOMBRE: screw the issues, let’s make a movie! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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