The Harvest/La Cosecha Premiers TONIGHT 10/5 at 8pm EST on EpixHD

The Harvest/La Cosecha premiers TONIGHT  Wednesday, October 5th at 8pm EST.

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Visit http://www.epixhd.com/the-harvest/ to find out if your cable provider carries EPIX and when The Harvest/La Cosecha will be showing again.

ALMA Special Achievement Award for The Harvest-La Cosecha

The Harvest/La Cosecha is honored to have received a Special Achievement Award at the 2011 NCLR ALMA awards. Thank you to all of those who made The Harvest/La Cosecha possible including: Director U. Roberto Romano, Executive Producers Susan MacLaury and Albie Hecht, Producer Rory O’Connor and of course Executive Producer Eva Longoria who accepted the award in person.

The Harvest/La Cosecha, Shine Global’s latest film, tells the story of three of the more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. The film profiles these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida’s tomato fields to follow the harvest. “It’s important that we know this is happening in the United States” said Eva Longoria in her acceptance speech, “the most well fed nation in the world is exploiting this labor force of children.”

The Harvest/La Cosecha will premier on EPIX pay cable on October 5th and the DVD is now available for pre-order from Cinema Libre Studio

The ALMA awards, broadcast on NBC on Friday September 16th, are a one-of-a-kind tribute to the spirit of pioneering Latinos in television, film, and music. It is an opportunity to applaud the incredible, enriching contributions that Latinos make to American culture and celebrate our country’s Hispanic heritage.
Since 1995, the NCLR ALMA Awards has promoted fair, accurate, and representative portrayals of Latinos in entertainment. As they honor the incredible talent of our community, they expect new generations to learn from the examples set by awardees such as Salma Hayek, Shakira, Narciso Rodriguez, America Ferrera, Edward James Olmos, and many more.

You can view the full pre-show at Telemundo.com

Inocente: Become a Filmmaker with Shine!

Shine’s next film INOCENTE is done shooting and is currently in post-production looking towards a festival premier in early 2012.

INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past – – a past punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, an alcoholic and defeated mother of four who once took her daughter by the hand to jump off a bridge together, an endless shuffle year after year through the city’s overcrowded homeless shelters and the constant threat of deportation.

INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America, children. Neither sentimental nor sensational, INOCENTE will immerse you in the very real, day-to-day existence of a young girl who is battling a war that we rarely see. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in Inocente’s story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.

You can view the trailer below:

Become a filmmaker with Shine Global by donating to help us finish the film. Every donation helps us tell the story of the new face of homelessness in America: children.

Developing Curricula for grades 7-12. Teachers’ input wanted

As part of our mission to raise awareness and inspire change, Shine Global develops free downloadable curricula to accompany our films.   This provides educators with essential tools to promote human rights in schools to the next generation of human rights activists.  Learning about human rights is the first step toward respecting, promoting and defending the rights of all people. Teaching human rights means both conveying ideas and information concerning human rights and nurturing the values and attitudes that lead to the support of those rights.

With War/Dance, Shine partnered with Amnesty International to create and distribute a film curriculum (you can get it here).  We are now working with teachers to develop the curricula for The Harvest/La Cosecha to help children in US schools learn more about their peers who not only have to go to school but also have to work in the fields harvesting crops to support their families.  The lesson plans aim to give a complete picture of the social, cultural, economic, and political consequences of child labor in the US.

Shine Global is currently looking for input from teachers.  We want to make sure these curricula are useful to you.  Please contact Susan at susan (at) shineglobal (dot) org to learn how you can help.

THE HARVEST (LA COSECHA) at the Sausalito Film Festival

The Harvest/La Cosecha will be screening at the Sausalito Film Festival this weekend in northern California.   We are glad to be bringing light to this issue in an area known for an emphasis on local food.  People need to think about not only where their food physically comes from but how it gets there.  In the US, that unfortunately often means by the labor of children as young as 12.

Buy your tickets for the screening by clicking here!

TIME + DATE

1:00 PM – Mission Blue Theater Sunday, August 21st
Bay Area Premiere
Directed by: U. Roberto Romano
Price: $10

About the Festival:

People around the world are drawn to Sausalito, certainly for its picturesque beauty, but possibly because it is so uniquely different from anywhere else.  The festival screens films that speak to our naturally rebellious nature, our creative soul, our passion for cultural understanding. Films of all lengths and genres are presented – features, shorts, animation, and documentaries from around the globe. Coupled with conversations and presentations that will stimulate, and provoke the senses.  Cavallo Point at historic Fort Baker, with the skyline of San Francisco as a backdrop, is located at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, Marin County.    Opened in the summer of 2008, Cavallo Point is an enchanting and environmentally sustainable “base camp” where the city’s urban edge turns into untamed coastal wildlands. Since opening it has earned much recognition, including Travel + Leisure Magazine naming it one of America’s top new national landmarks. Festival films are shown in two historic and restored converted theaters: Mission Blue and Callippe.

Website: http://www.theharvestfilm.com
Twitter: @theharvestdoc
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Eva Longoria at LA premier of THE HARVEST (LA COSECHA)

Executive Producer Eva Longoria attended the LA premier of the documentary THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA with Executive Producers Albie Hecht and Susan MacLaury of Shine Global and Director U. Roberto Romano who all participated in the post-screening Q&A.

The standing room only screening was attended by representatives from national organizations such as NCLR (National Council on La Raza), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) and the UFW (United Farmworkers),among other organizations that support the film.

Also in the audience were a group of one hundred students, aged 15 – 17, who attended the screening as members of the Migrant Scholars Leadership Institute at UCLA.  Many of these youth have worked in the fields themselves and acknowledged the honesty of the film as it related to their experiences.

The film, distributed by Cinema Libre Studio, opens Friday August 5, at Laemmle’s Music Hall (9036 Wilshire Blvd, www.laemmle.com). Producers MacLaury and Hecht will be participating in a Q&A following the 7:10pm show on Friday, August 5 and Saturday, August 6.  More information is available at: www.theharvestfilm.com

NY PREMIER of The Harvest/La Cosecha 7/29 at the Quad

After over four years, THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA will finally premier this Friday 7/29  at the Quad Cinema in NY for a week run followed by an opening in LA Friday 8/5

The Producers will do a Q&A following the Friday and Saturday night evening screenings in both cities (7:40 in NY and 7:30 in LA)

Thank you to all of our supporters who have contributed to Shine and spread the word about THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA.

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The Harvest/La Cosecha Showtimes for NY

You can now purchase your tickets for the NY screenings of THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA at the Quad Cinema: http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=216&rdate=7%2F29%2F2011&sortid=1

Premiers FRIDAY, JULY  29th for a week run at

Quad Cinema
34 West 13th St # B
New York, NY 10011

Please join us Friday and Saturday nights at the 7:40pm screenings for a Q&A with the Academy Award nominated Executive Producers Albie Hecht and Susan MacLaury

The film opens in LA for a week starting  FRIDAY, AUGUST 5th at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 (9036 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, 90211)

www.theharvestfilm.com

The Harvest/La Cosecha in theaters July 29 in NY August 5th in LA

The Harvest/La Cosecha will be appearing in theaters in NY and LA this summer.

FRIDAY, JULY  29th
NEW YORK CITY
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th St # B
New York, NY 10011

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5th
LOS ANGELES
Laemmle’s Music Hall 3
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, 90211

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Antonio Film Festival, The Harvest/La Cosecha tells the story of 3 of the estimated 400,000 children in the US who leave behind their homes, schools, and friends to pick the food we all eat– without the protection of child labor laws.  The lives of these migrant farmworker children and their families is illuminated by the award winning filmmaker U Roberto Romano.  The filmmakers, including Executive Producer Eva Longoria, have been to Capitol Hill several times to show the film to members of Congress in support of the CARE act to change child labor laws to protect children working in agriculture. [See previous article]

If you would like to bring THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA to your community please contact screenings@cinemalibrestudios.com
Visit www.theharvestfilm.com or text HARVEST to 67463 to learn more

The Harvest/La Cosecha wins Outstanding Filmmaker Award at San Antonio Film Festival!

The Harvest/La Cosecha won the Outstanding Filmmaker Award at the San Antonio Film Festival last night.  The documentary follows 3 of the estimated 400,000 children who leave behind their homes, friends, and schools to migrate from state to state and crop to crop picking the food we all eat–all without the protection of child labor laws.

Director U. Roberto Romano began filming The Harvest/La Cosecha in 2007 and spent the ensuing years traveling over 75,000 miles through 24 states filming and meeting farmworkers families.  His commitment to the cause of helping migrant child farmworkers, who lack the protections all other American children enjoy,  shine brightly in this film about their lives and their struggle to help their families survive.

Shine Global would like to thank everyone who made this film possible including our many supporters.

To learn when the film will be showing near you or how to bring The Harvest/La Cosecha to your community please visit: http://www.theharvestfilm.com/

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