On The Seventh Day, They Played Soccer
Jim McKay makes movies about New Yorkers who don't often make it to the big screen. His newest, En el Séptimo Día, is about Mexican undocumented workers who gather on the pitch on their only day off.
Jim McKay used to walk into video stores back in the 1990s, where he'd see versions of himself: white males, in all kinds of movies. Then he tried to imagine being someone else.
"You'd go in these aisles, and you'd see box after box after box of VHSes," McKay says. "And you'd just realize, like, for [a] young woman [of color], there's nothing there. She's not there. You're really not visible."
His first two films, and , are about young women of color coming of age — in fact, most of his films pay close attention to the lives of marginalized New Yorkers. His new film (Spanish for ), centers around young, undocumented male immigrants from the Mexican state of Puebla.
