Frontier Life (2002)

If necessity is the mother of invention then Tijuana is where she gave birth and raised her kid A city that rejects entropy Tijuana constructs its own rules Its denizens negotiate the chaos with fierce independence ingenuity and a gift for improvisation Frontier Life is a featurelength documentary that explores beyond Tijuanas Sin City heritage beyond the aura of menace cultivated by the mainstream media and searches for the heart and identity of a city that is much more than a cantinastrewn throwback to the Old West This film does not set out to valorize or condemn what it finds It approaches Tijuana on its own terms looking at the city not so much in relationship to the US the border or even other regions in Mexico but rather from the inside within its own context