Please join us for this film screening and discussion hosted by
The United Nations Association of New York
Fuego
Panelists include
Rosanna Arquette
Actor & Activist
Nasreen Sheikh
Founder, Empowerment Collective
Emma Seppälä
Yale Faculty
Best-Selling Author, Psychologist specializing in Happiness, Compassion & Trauma Recovery
Master Betty
Spiritual Activist
Ezekiel Pacheco
First DACA Recipient to be the Lead in a Feature Film
Michael Greene
Producer & Activist
Arturo Muyshondt
Filmmaker & Activist
Founder, Caras Foundation
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Wednesday | 10 September 2025 | 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Admission:
UNA Members: $22
Non-Members: $30
Dolby 88 Screening Room
1350 Avenue of the Americas (at West 55th Street)
Lobby Level
New York, NY 10019
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Reception (organic chicken & vegan pupusas served)
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. | Film screening
8:00 - 8:30 p.m. | Discussion
8:30 p.m. | Reception continues
Screening begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. followed by a Q+A discussion.
Catering provided graciously by Chef Luis Teles, Point Brazil Restaurant.*
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In director Arturo Muyshondt’s film FUEGO, a Mayan mother in the highlands of Guatemala fights to protect her family amid a devastating migration crisis. As their village faces turmoil, the inhabitants must make life-altering decisions, risking everything for a chance at a better future.
FUEGO is a socially impacting feature film that follows a mother fighting to keep her family together in the face of a catastrophic migration crisis wreaking havoc on the indigenous population up in the highlands of Guatemala.
This critical and urgent cinematic experience highlights the origin of one of the most unknown yet most pressing issues of our time: how more than 250,000 Indigenous children refugees from the northern triangle of Central America have crossed into the U.S. alone looking for a better life, only to be absorbed into modern day slavery or handed over to street gangs.
Muyshondt is a Salvadoran-born filmmaker and founder of the Caras Foundation, whose personal history includes being a child soldier at age 11 in El Salvador's civil war, and later using a video camera to document his experiences, which profoundly influenced his decision to become a filmmaker focused on migrant and war-affected children.
“This is far more than just a film,” says Muyshondt. “It’s a movement. We have a history-making opportunity, one that doesn’t just raise awareness, it drives positive change in our world. FUEGO is the first step in a new model for how art can change the world.”
FUEGO is an urgent and heart wrenching dramatic thriller about the inhabitants of a Mayan village who risk their lives in order to shape their own destiny.
We invite you to attend the New York premiere screening of this powerful film, followed by a panel session with our guests who will be present for a Q+A with the audience, including the film’s director Arturo Muyshondt, trafficking survivor and Empowerment Collective founder Nasreen Sheikh, Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program Emma Seppälä, spiritual actvist Master Betty, and actor Ezekiel Pacheco, who was the first DACA Recipient cast as lead in a feature film, and the film’s producer Michael Greene. Opening remarks for the evening will be delivered by actor and activist Rosanna Arquette.
* Chef Luis Teles, Point Brazil Restaurant, 3801 31st Avenue, Astoria NY 11103 | Tel: 718-278-1934