Boca Chica, Corazón Grande

Boca Chica, Corazón Grande is a community archival project focused on collecting and documenting the history and geography of Boca Chica Beach. This collaborative initiative uses the power of memory, storytelling, and archiving to preserve and celebrate the cultural richness of our communities and land. 

This project is facilitated by Flower Friends, a floral exchange and mutual aid initiative based in San Antonio/Brownsville, Texas, and ENTRE, an artist-run community film center and regional archive located in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Flower Friends and ENTRE are inviting community members to submit physical home movies, photographs, and/or historical documents centered around your experience of Boca Chica Beach.

We have an open call for materials that capture family, community, nature, landscape, and/or features of the beach. We are currently seeking the following artifacts:

Home Movies — 16mm, Super 8mm, Regular 8mm film, VHS, MiniDV, Hi-8
Photographs — Prints, slides, and/or negatives
Documentation — Postcards, letters, drawings, event flyers, etc.

Oral Histories

These oral histories will focus on Boca Chica Beach and the memories, histories, and/or mythologies our narrators associate with the land. By engaging in various conversations with our community partners and narrators before the interview is conducted, we are able to gather the universal thoughts on Boca Chica Beach and use this important information to guide our interview questions.

It is important that each narrator understands they are the stewards of their memories, and through our preliminary conversations and meetings, we will emphasize this point. Collaborating with our narrators in this way anchors our project in the community it’s being created for. 

You can inquire about becoming a narrator or suggesting a narrator by reaching out to us via email: info@entrefilmcenter.org