Evening Film: After I Pick the Fruit

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Crandall Public Library
Christine L. McDonald Community Room

Event Details

(USA, 2011, 93 min., color, DVD, NR, subtitled) After I Pick the Fruit is a feature-length documentary that follows the lives of five immigrant farmworker women – three of them undocumented – over a ten-year period as they struggle to fulfill their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and members of an isolated community that’s almost invisible to the outside world. It’s an intensely personal film, born of friendships forged by filmmaker Nancy Ghertner with each of the five women, who asked to be identified simply as Soledad, Vierge, Maria, Elisa, and Lorena. After I Pick the Fruit begins and ends in the apple orchards around Sodus, NY, but includes footage on location in Chilapa de Diaz, Mexico, the US-Mexican border in Texas, the orange groves of Florida, the Capitol Building in Albany, and most importantly, in the women’s homes when the work day is done. –Nancy Ghertner Screened with the permission of the film maker, Nancy Ghertner, and in coordination with the Folklife Center’s exhibit, The Dream of America “Ghertner’s work is worth a watch by those interested in the origin of their food and the people of their community.” - Kayla Young, Fresh Fruit Portal, 3/19/2013
Event Type(s): Film Program, Film Program
Age Group(s): Adults