Fruits of Labor

  • FRUITS OF LABOR Trailer. Touching SXSW Coming-of-Age Documentary on a Mexican-American Teen

    Ashley in the strawberry fields in FRUITS OF LABOR
    Ashley in the strawberry fields. | Credit: Documentary still from FRUITS OF LABOR

    Check out the new trailer for Fruits of Labor, Emily Cohen Ibañez’s Mexican-American coming-of-age documentary, set to Broadcast Premiere on October 4th on PBS’s POV. The film follows a Mexican-American teenage farmworker who dreams of graduating high school, when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become her family’s breadwinner. Fruits of Labor made its World Premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.

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  • ‘Summer of Soul’ and ‘How It Ends’ Bookend Independent Film Festival Boston 2021 Lineup

    Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
    Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Mass Distraction Media.

    The Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) announced the full lineup of films that will screen at the 2021 festival set to take place virtually online from May 6th – May 16, 2021. “Summer of Soul” directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson will open the festival on Thursday May 6th and “How It Ends” directed by Zoe Lister-Jones and Darryl Wein will close the festival on Sunday, May 16th.

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  • SXSW Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup, Closes with Charli XCX’s ‘Alone Together’

    Alone Together directed by Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler
    Alone Together directed by Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler

    SXSW Film Festival announced the full program for the 28th edition of the festival which this year will take place online. The festival will open with Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free as Centerpiece Film and Alone Together, a documentary on popstar Charli XCX, in quarantine will World Premiere as the Closing Night Film.

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