Everyone has a dream. Everyone has a journey 🎤 ✨ Mija, an Original documentary, is streaming on September 16 on #DisneyPlus
About MIJA
Disney Original Documentary’s MIJA features Doris Muñoz and Jacks Haupt, two daughters of undocumented immigrants from Mexico who are both navigating their careers in the music industry. Seeking to provide for their families while achieving their dreams, Doris and Jacks bond over the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families and the financial risks of pursuing their dreams. For them, the pressure of success is heightened because it is their family’s hope for green cards and family reunification.
MIJA is a moving love letter to immigrants and their children. Director Isabel Castro’s intimate debut feature constructs an ethereal vision and dedication to the daughters that fight for their families, their dreams and themselves.
About Director Isabel Castro
Isabel Castro is a four-time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker who combines a practice in journalism and art to tell stories about immigration, civil rights, and identity. She splits her time between Mexico City and Los Angeles.
Castro directed, produced, and filmed the Emmy-nominated, award-winning documentary short USA v Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker), Emmy-nominated Darlin (Tribeca 2019, NYT OpDocs), and on the Emmy-nominated Netflix docu-series Pandemic. Her debut project Crossing Over (Univision/Participant Media) won a 2015 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Interviews about her work on Crossing Over were nominated for two additional GLAAD awards. She’s worked on dozens of stories as a producer, cinematographer and multimedia journalist for The New York Times, as an Edward R. Murrow-award winning producer at The Marshall Project, on two seasons of the Emmy-award winning series VICE on HBO, and as an Emmy-nominated producer covering civil rights and policy at VICE News Tonight on HBO.
MIJA is her feature-length debut. MIJA has received support from the Sundance Institute, Impact Partners, Cinereach, the SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship, Points North Institute / CNN Films, Fork Films, Chicken & EggPictures, Firelight Media, and NBCU Academy & NBC News Studios Original Voices. Castro is an Artist-in-Residence at Concordia Studio, and she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40”, both in 2021.
About Doris Anahi Muñoz | Film Participant
Doris Anahi Muñoz is a singer-songwriter, music industry executive, and immigration rights advocate. Inspired to create a new world for her community to thrive in the music industry, Doris founded Casa Mija (FKA mija mgmt) an artist management turned industry mentorship hub and Solidarity for Sanctuary, a non-profit aimed to amplify the voices of immigrant communities through music, advocacy and the arts. Doris currently serves as a senior fellow in Civic Media based at USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and is the subject of Disney Original Documentary’s Mija, a full-length documentary by Isabel Castro, which premiered at Sundance in January, 2022. With a debut EP set to release in the Spring of 2022 as well, Doris continues to expand her creative endeavors while continuing her original mission to amplify the message of the marginalized through platforms for social change.Â
About Jacks Haupt | Film Participant
Jacks Haupt is a Mexican-American independent singer-songwriter from Dallas, TX. Redefining the Pop-R&B sound, she taught herself how to write and make music straight from her iPhone at only 15 years old despite not having enough resources. Jacks has now released two EP’s, 1973 and La Mezcla: Illusion gathering over 8K followers on Spotify. Through her magnifying new sounds she represents a generation that exists across cultures, languages and genres. Haupt splits her time between her 9am to 5pm job and making music and hopes to inspire others to follow their dreams despite all odds. She is a subject in Disney Original Documentary’s MIJA, which is directed by Isabel Castro and premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Jacks Haupt is set to release a full EP in the Fall of 2022. Her music can be found on Spotify, Youtube, and soundcloud.
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Mins 88 | Language English, Spanish | Year 2022 | Country USA, Mexico
