Join us on Tuesday, March 11 at Medicine for Nightmares for a screening of Trokas Duras, followed by a virtual Q&A with director Jazmin Garcia, hosted by navi kaur, and dilpreet, Trokas Duras is visual journey through the interior landscapes of a Jornalero’s dreams, his waking reality in L.A., and what it looks like when a group of people relegated to serving others labors for their own elevation of body and spirit. An homage to the unique, idiosyncratic, and customized old pick-up trucks driven by Latino day laborers and the intimacy that is cultivated in and around them.

A jornalero dreams about the iconic trucks of his compañeros,, their customized details, style, and honorable cargos. Just when his dream ramps up with visions of love and justice, he wakes up to a seemingly ordinary day in Los Angeles. Like any work day for a jornalero, it starts with a coffee before loading up cargos. We then weave through intimate moments and conversations in and around colorful pick up trucks, learning about the labor, loss, and pride of a few pairs of workers as they work and commute through the city. A day’s chamba, or work, ends with a synchronized route to the country outskirts of LA, where a Tree of Life gathers and provides shelter, as well as space for ritual and celebration for a group of laborers ending a hard day of work.

Jazmin Garcia is a filmmaker, photographer, and music curator based in Mexico City and Los Angeles. She has been developing her craft through music videos, short documentaries, and commercial work. Her work aspires to live within the visual realm of transformative justice, as a space that holds and uplifts memory, exploring themes around identity and freedom, focusing on immigration and the American pressures of cultural assimilation. She continues to develop narrative projects that expand on generational family histories and her own experience as a first-generation Mexican-Guatemalan- American, weaving intimate stories of trauma, magic, amor, and the perseverance of hope. She has exhibited selected short films through programs like the Echo Park Film Center L.A. Air Residency and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. Her latest short film, TROKAS DURAS, won the Short Film Jury Award for Best US Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival 2025. When she is not working on visual projects, she is hosting and curating her monthly radio show, Como La Flor. The sonic landscape she creates is one of nostalgia and solace through sentimental and cinematic Latin American music spanning from the 1930s-1970s. Como La Flor ranks as the 3rd most listened to broadcast on the online global platform NTS Radio.