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Rancho California (Por Favor) [2003]

14 Apr

59m

Director: John Caldwell

Synopsis (Berkeley Media): This thought-provoking, widely acclaimed visual essay provides a troubling journey through migrant farmworker camps in suburban southern California — Rancho de los Diablos, Kelly Camp, Porterville, McGonigle Canyon — where homeless indigenous Mixteco workers coexist near gated designer-home enclaves in Carlsbad, La Costa, Encinitas, and Del Mar.

In a remarkable feat of artistic and political fusion, the film explores the charged debate over the meaning and consequences of immigrant culture near America’s southern border, and along the way examines the complex realities of race and class in this country.

Website: http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/american_studies/rancho_california_por_favor

 
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Posted by on April 14, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers

 

HERstory – Jeritan (2009)

01 Mar

74m

Director: Cecilia Ho Wing Yin

Synopsis (CLiFF): A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting mainly of Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Documentary, Migrant workers, Women

 

Homebound (Balikbayan) [2003]

01 Mar

5m

Directors: Larilyn Sanchez, Riza Manalo

Synopsis (IFFR): A woman who works outside the Philippines to earn money for her family sees herself forced to send her mother back home alone. She can’t pay for her own journey, but as compensation she gives her mother gifts from the rich world.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Experimental, Migrant workers, Women

 

America Now: Children of the Harvest (2010)

21 Feb

60m

Broadcast Date: NBC, July 19, 2010

Producers: David Corvo, Nick Capote and Rayner Ramirez

Synopsis (Dateline NBC): For thousands of children in America,  summer means hard labor in the hot sun. They’re migrant laborers working alongside their struggling parents on America’s farms. Dateline took its cameras and found a story of hardship, perserverence, and love.

Website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38312193/ns/dateline_nbc/t/america-now-children-harvest/

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Children, Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers

 

Año Nuevo (1981)

24 Jan

55m

Director: Todd Darling

Synopsis (WorldCat): Describes the living and working conditions of undocumented Mexican agricultural workers at the Año Nuevo flower ranch in San Mateo County, California. Documents the efforts of a group of these workers, fired when they attempted to join a union, to reach a settlement with the Año Nuevo owner through the U.S. legal system. Includes interviews with prominent scholars, attorneys and organizers.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers

 
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