''Underwater Dreams'' is a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

written, directed, and produced by

Mary Mazzio Mary Mazzio is an American documentary filmmaker, attorney, and Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics, a rower for the United States in the 1992 Olympics. She founded the independent film company 50 Eggs Films, 50 Eggs. Mazzio received a B.A. in p ...

. The film chronicles the story of how the sons of undocumented

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immigrants learned how to build underwater robots, and go up against MIT in the process.

Synopsis

''Underwater Dreams'' is the true story of a team of undocumented Mexican high school students, who under the tutelage of two of their teachers, enter the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's annual International ROV competition, which is sponsored by the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Marine Technology Society The Marine Technology Society (MTS) is a professional society that serves the international community of approximately 3,800 ocean engineers, technologists, policy-makers, and educators. The goal of the society, which was founded in 1963, is to pr ...

, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

. The four boys from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix competed against college teams all across the United States including MIT. Another film, '' Spare Parts'' about the Carl Hayden team was released January 16, 2015. It stars George Lopez and Marisa Tomei.

References

External links

Official movie website
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