'Travel' puts human face on hot button election issue

April 16, 2008 Tribeca "Travel: " At a time when illegal immigration is a hot button issue for many U.S. voters, it's the subject of a hit Colombian movie that's set in New York and will have its North American premiere April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Simon Brand, who started out making music videos about 20 years ago in Bogota at the age of 17, "Paraiso Travel" doesn't make any kind of political argument about illegal immigration. What it does do is put a human face on the millions of anonymous illegals now living in the U.S. The film is actually a powerful love story told from the illegals' point of view, something Americans really haven't been exposed to before.

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