Fruits
of Labor
LI
AgriCULTURE: Celebrating Local Foods with the Power of Film
FREE Online Film
Screening & Pre-recorded panel discussion with Angel Reyes Rivas, Rural & Migrant Ministry and Miguel, founder of the Long Island Farm Workers Cooperative
Presented by Cinema
Arts Centre and Rural & Migrant Ministry in partnership with ChooseLI and the
Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning and made
possible with support from the Long Island Community Foundation
Available for online
viewing through November 30th,
2021
Admission
is FREE (Click "Buy Tickets" for FREE registration.)
For the next
installment of our LI AgriCULTURE series, the Cinema Arts Centre is proud to be
joining forces with Rural Migrant Ministry for a screening and discussion about
agricultural labor. The 4th program in this series, the screening &
discussion will be available to stream online through November 30th. Watch the
film then tune-in to a pre-recorded Zoom discussion with a panel of experts. Both links are provided in your email order
confirmation.
Fruits
of Labor is a coming of age documentary about Ashley, an American
teenager in California, who dreams of graduating from high school and going to
college. As Ashley’s family struggles with poverty, the threat of family
separation due to increased deportations in her community forces her to become
the breadwinner for her family, working days in the strawberry fields and
nights at a food processing company. A lyrical meditation on adolescence,
nature and ancestral forces, the film asks, what does it mean to come into
one’s power as a working young woman of color in the wealthiest nation in the
world?
Make sure to stay tuned
for more events in our new program series, LI AgriCULTURE.
LI
AgriCULTURE: Celebrating Local Foods with the Power of Film engages
our community in Long Island’s rich landscape of sustainable food production
through the power of documentary film, helping to foster pride in our shared
agricultural and aquacultural heritage, and inspiring us to choose more local
foods. Presenting dynamic documentary screening and discussion programs,
virtually and in a variety of locations, our program will connect audiences to
local food producers and encourage and empower our community to include more
locally and sustainably produced foods in our daily diets. Learn more: https://cinemaartscentre.org/li_agriculture/
For more info on the
Rural and Migrant Ministry, please reach out to Angel Reyes Rivas at
rmmangelr@gmail.com.
For more info on the
Long Island Farm Workers Collective, visit https://www.facebook.com/lifwc/
