Developing Curricula for grades 7-12. Teachers’ input wanted
August 22, 2011
Zulema Lopez, a migrant child farmworker, fits in some study time in Bear Lake, MI
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
August 15, 2011
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
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theharvestfilm
Eva Longoria at LA premier of THE HARVEST (LA COSECHA)
August 4, 2011
Executive Producer Eva Longoria at the Q&A for LA Premier of THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA - playing at the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles starting August 5th
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
July 28, 2011
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.
The Harvest/La Cosecha Showtimes for NY
July 20, 2011
Premiers Friday, July 29th at the Quad Cinema in NY. Purchase your tickets now!
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)
The Harvest/La Cosecha in theaters July 29 in NY August 5th in LA
July 5, 2011
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!
June 23, 2011
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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The Harvest/La Cosecha to screen at San Antonio Film Festival 6/22
June 6, 2011
THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA
Shine Global is very pleased to announce that THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA will be screening on the evening of Wednesday, June 22nd at the San Antonio Film Festival. Now in its 16th year, the San Antonio Film Festival — formerly The San Antonio Underground Film Festival — is held annually in June at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico in San Antonio with the mission to serve as an accessible and inclusive platform for artists in the category of cinema and provide cinematic culture to a diverse audience. The San Antonio Film Festival showcases film from around the world while nurturing, fostering, and developing filmmakers of all ages.
THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA tells the story of 3 of the estimated 400,000 children who leave behind their homes, friends, and schools to travel from state to state and crop to crop picking the food we all eat. They work in brutally hot temperatures and are exposed to pesticides in order to help their families survive — all without the protection of child labor laws.
We hope you can join Director U Roberto Romano and Executive Producer Susan MacLaury for the screening and a post-screening Q&A.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22nd
7-10pm
El Instituto Cultural de México
San Antonio Film Festival
600 Hemisfair Park
San Antonio, Texas 78205
New Inocente Trailer!
May 18, 2011
The new Inocente Trailer is now up!
In San Diego, a young teenage girl’s eyes stare into a compact mirror. She paints a dramatic black swirl around her eye. She never knows what her day will bring, but she knows at least it will always begin with paint.
INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age feature 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.
Despite this history, Inocente’s eyes envision a world transformed…where buildings drip in yellow and orange, where pink and turquoise planets twinkle with rescued dreams, and one-eyed childlike creatures play amongst loved babies and purple clouds. Inocente’s family history is slowly revealed through her paintings, which are brought to life onscreen in an animated storyline of her own creation and woven throughout the narrative.
Told entirely in her own words, we come to Inocente’s story as she realizes her life is at a turning point, and for the first time, she decides to take control of her own destiny. Irreverent, flawed and funny, she’s now channeling her irrepressible personality into a future she controls. Her talent has finally been noticed, and if she can create a body of work in time, she has an opportunity to put on her first art show. Meanwhile, her family life is at a tense impasse – – if she legally emancipates herself from her mother to strike out on her own, she’ll risk placing her brothers in foster care, but to stay is unbearable.
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.
Still time to bid to meet Will Smith on set of MIB3
May 9, 2011
There’s still time to bid on this once in a lifetime opportunity! You and one guest could meet the one and only Will Smith as you take a tour of the Men in Black III set in New York City this Spring! As you tour the set, you might even get to see other cast members such as Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords. After your tour, you will even get to have your picture taken with the great Will Smith and legendary director Barry Sonnenfeld!
Since the first title in the series launched in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones have become one of the most dynamic on screen duos in movie history. Now in it’s third iteration, the “Men in Black” series has captured the imaginations of fans for nearly 15 years! Bid now to be part of this historic set and meet one of the greatest actors of our generation.
All of the proceeds from this auction will help Shine Global in our mission to end the abuse and exploitation of children worldwide. All children have the right to a childhood and you can help this happen.
The auction ends Tuesday, May 17th at 3:oopm EST so hurry before you miss this chance!
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