The Harvest

September 24th, 2011
7:00 pm

Eva Longoria’s documentary “The Harvest” and Key Note remarks with White House Deputy Director for Excellence in Hispanic Education Jose Rico, with filmmaker Q&A afterword

THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA is the story of the children who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year in the scorching hot sun, without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working here, in our back yard, in America.

Not since the work of Walker Evans, has the world of these agricultural workers been so vividly and intimately depicted. More than 400,000 migrant child workers in the US journey from their homes traveling from state to state, farm to farm, crop to crop, picking the produce we all eat. Many of these children are American citizens. All are working to help their families survive while sacrificing the birthright of childhood: play; stability; school. The film profiles three of them as they work through the 2009 harvest. 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?

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The Hackworth IMAX Dome Theater at
The Tech Museum
201 South Market Street
San José, CA 95113

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