Hi Matthew,
Women Make Movies has two films that may be of interest: Troubled Harvest This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherry harvests in California and the Pacific Northwest. Interviews with women farm workers reveal the dangerous health effects of pesticides on themselves and their children, the problems they encounter as working mothers of young children, and the destructive consequences of U.S. immigration policies on the unity of their families. Featuring an interview with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union. http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c72.shtml Performing the Border A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Candid interviews with Mexican women factory and sex workers, as well as activists and journalists, are combined with scripted voiceover analysis, screen text, scenes and sounds recorded on site, and found footage to give new insights into the gendered conditions inscribed by the high-tech industry at its low-wage end. http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c474.shtml Let me know if you have any questions. Best, Amy Aquilino Women Make Movies Distribution and Sales Coordinator 462 Broadway, Suite 500 New York, NY 10013 (p)212-925-0606 ext. 305 (f)212-925-2052 WMM new release SALMA <http://www.wmm.com/salma/> , by Kim Longinotto, had its world premiere in World Docs competition at Sundance and now moves on to the Panorama section of the Berlinale <http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?f ilm_id=20131052> . Congrats to all the WMM filmmakers who particpanted in Sundance including Production Assistance films AFTER TILLER, GIDEON'S ARMY which took home the US Editing Award, and WHO IS DAYANI CRYSTAL, a former Arts Engine project. <http://www.twitter.com/womenmakemovies> <http://www.facebook.com/womenmakemovies> <http://www.youtube.com/user/WMMNYC> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 3:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] films on undocumented workers I have been asked to come up with a list of films on the lives of undocumented workers. The films need to focus on workers and their labor issues, as opposed to films on other parts of the undocumented experience (i.e. wonderful films like "Inocente"). I have several in our collection and don't need to know about those: Maid in America No Sweat El Contrato Los Trabajadores / The Workers but any others in the same ball park would be good to know about, especially if they highlight Latino workers. Thanks, Matthew Matthew Wright Head of Collection Development and Instructional Services William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 451080 Las Vegas, NV 89154-1080 (702) 895-2409; (702) 895-2410 (fax)
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