Backside paints an intimate portrait of the unseen “groom” workers that sustain the elite horse-racing industry, showing how wealth, class, and race come together in the United States.
90 minutes
Producer/Director
Raúl is a Mexican immigrant filmmaker whose work explores themes of belonging, alienation, and "home." His feature film Border South (2019) screened at festivals worldwide. Raul is a Bay Area Video Coalition MediaMaker Fellow, Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow, New America National Fellow, and a Creative Capital Awards Artist Fellow.
Producer
Patricia is a Puerto Rican anthropologist and filmmaker whose films have been screened globally at festivals like the Havana International Film Festival, The Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, and the Boston Latino Film Festival. She was the director of the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival.
Producer
Gabriella is a Colombian American filmmaker focused on our relationship to land and the nonhuman. She produced La Bonga (True/False, 2023) and Backside (2025), receiving support from Sundance, Catapult, Creative Capital, and Firelight, among others. Her cinematography work has screened at festivals including SXSW, IDFA, and Tribeca.