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Fruits of Labor Review: A Mexican American Family s Struggles in Central California Fruits of Labor Review: A Mexican American Family s Struggles in Central California
Emily Cohen Ibanez s documentary is an intriguing look at the heavily responsibilities borne by an undocumented immigrant s teen daughter.
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Those who complain “immigrants are stealing our jobs” hardly seem likely applicants for the jobs held by protagonists in “Fruits of Labor” such as cleaning other people’s houses or working the graveyard shift in a food processing plant. Constant hard work doesn’t seem to bring the American Dream much closer for this Mexican American family on California’s central coast. Emily Cohen Ibanez’s debut feature provides a flavorful glimpse at lives seldom represented in popular media, though she also obfuscates that view somewhat with fussily artistic fil
The WNET Group s American Masters Pictures Brings Documentaries on Rita Moreno, Amy Tan, Alvin Ailey and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio to 2021 Sundance Film Festival
Features world premieres of Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, Ailey and Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
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American Masters Pictures documentaries will world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs January 28 – February 3:
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It,
Ailey and
American Masters on PBS at a later date. Additionally,
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This is the Way We Rise, now streaming as part of
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The indie film showcase s pandemic-era program also has directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Pascual Sisto and Questlove with his Black Woodstock documentary.
As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson s reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers.
For Jackson, the focus on debut feature directors underlines how, despite the COVID-19 crisis pausing film production in Hollywood and upending planning for Sundance s upcoming Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, 2021, edition, the marquee festival isn t playing it safe as it doubles down on revealing new independent voices to the world.