A Mexican-American teenager dreams of graduating high school, when increased ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become the breadwinner for her family. She works long days in the strawberry fields and the night shift at a food processing factory. Set in an agricultural town on the central coast of California, FRUITS OF LABOR is a coming of age story about an American teenager traversing the seen and unseen forces that keep her family trapped in poverty.  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?

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SCREENINGS & AWARDS (2021)

South By Southwest Film Festival (Virtual)

Alexander Valley Film Festival

IFF Boston

Chicago Latino Film Festival

Hot Docs

Images Cinema

Seattle International Film Festival

Milwaukee Film Fest's Cine Sin Fronteras Section

Philadelphia Latino Film Festival

Full Frame

LA Latinx Film Festival

San Francisco Documentary Festival

BAM CinemaFest (New York)

Watsonville Film Festival

EQUIS Festival

Phoenix Film Festival

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF)

San Diego Human Rights Watch Festival

Ambulante Film Festival: Documentary Tour