Film & Video
NUEVO CINE: The Harvest / La Cosecha
The story of the children who work to feed America, The Harvest revisits Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of Shame, filmed 50 years ago, and reveals how little has changed over the past five decades in the lives of migrant farm workers in America.
Currently, more than 400,000 migrant child workers in the U.S. journey from their homes, traveling from state to state, farm to farm, crop to crop, as they pick the produce we all eat. Many of them are American citizens and work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year, without the protection of child labor laws.
The Harvest focuses on three of these children as they work through the harvest in 2009 to help their families survive. Whose families will be “lucky” enough to get work? Which families will be separated? Which will be deported or injured or killed? Will any manage to keep their dreams alive?
Join us for a post-show Q&A with director U Roberto Romano, Zama Coursen-Neff, Deputy Director of the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, and members of the Community/Farmworker Alliance (NYC) and People’s Production House.
[Dir. U Roberto Romano, USA, 2010 Documentary HD].
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For more information on Harvest of Shame, click here.
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