Paulina Gaitan-Sin Nombre Trailer

Sundance festival favourite Sin Nombre opens in Liverpool Friday August, 14

Sin Nombre Movie Trailer

The critical film Sin Nombre gives a realistic look at immigrants who take considerable measures to make it to the Texas borders

Paulina Gaitan

Paulina Gaitan
Paulinas New film Sin Nombre about the struggle immigrants go through to reach America, has been recieved with critics clamoring more of Paulina. The saga of a young Honduran woman trying to reach the land of the free for a better opportunity tugs at your heart strings. Even the most diehard against immigrants entering in the United States would soften at the warm kindhearted face of Paulina Gaitan. There is simply no way anyone could deny her. Paulinas star track meter is sure to rise meteorically here soon as Sin Nombre receives more and more aclaim

Paulina Gaitan

Paulina Gaitan

Hispanic actress Paulina Gaitan debuted on-camera in her adolescent years, with a memorably difficult part that brought her international crossover success: that of Adriana, a young girl kidnapped and sold into underground sex slavery against her will, in Marco Kreuzpaintner's lurid thriller

Paulina stars in Sin Nombre as Sayra , a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers (Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer) who have boarded the same American-bound train.Willy (Edgar Flores) is a teenager in Mago's gang. Gradually, Willy goes from being a recruiter for the gang - he brings in a little boy (Kristyan Ferrer) with a talent for larceny - to realizing that gang life is far from a liberation, that it is, in fact, the enemy of every good thing worth having. This realization has life-changing consequences and brings him directly into the orbit of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a Honduran teenager trying to make it across Mexico to the Texas border.

Most Americans think of illegal immigration as something that happens along the California or Texas state lines. Fukunaga shows us the process of getting to the border, one that involves hopping freight trains and avoiding local authorities, who could be lurking at any given stop. These are people with no means, people who, if caught, might never make it home, much less into the United States. Meanwhile, the poverty as seen from the train is staggering, people in ragged clothes, living in shacks instead of houses.
"Sin Nombre" ("Without Name") is an escape saga and a romance in which a teenage girl, fleeing poverty, meets a boy who is running for his life, and the two find a common understanding. There are some brief minutes when the tension drops and the story starts to sag, but Fukunaga almost always fills the frame with something worth seeing, and the story has a built-in suspense.

Cary Fukunaga’s “Sin Nombre,” which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and opens on Friday