FRIDAY | OCTOBER 22 | 4–6 PM: SCREENING + DISCUSSION
FRUITS OF LABOR (78 Mins, 2021, Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez)
Award-winning documentary Fruits of Labor features a Mexican-American teen who dreams of graduating high school amidst increased ICE raids, threatening to separate her family. Forced to become the breadwinner, she works long days in the strawberry fields of central California’s coast and night shifts at a food processing factory. Post-screening discussion: filmmaker EMILY COHEN IBAÑEZ with DIANA TAYLOR (Depts. of Spanish and Portuguese & Performance Studies.) and MARIA JOSEFINA SALDAÑA-PORTILLO (Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis).
Interview with Emily Cohen Ibañez
CO-SPONSORS: CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES, CINEMA STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL & CULTURAL ANALYSIS, NATIVE STUDIES FORUM