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From Forbes.com, Danielle Gould, 8 May 2012. While consumer demand for information about where our food comes from and how it’s grown is increasing, thus far there has been relatively little interest in the people that actually harvest it. Commonly used labels such as ”natural,” “free range,” “genetically engineered,” “heirloom,” “organic” and “local,” indicate nothing about … Continue reading »

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After I Pick the Fruit

All proceeds from the film will go to the support of farmworker women.

All proceeds from the film will go to the support of farmworker women.

After I PIck the Fruit is a feature documentary produced and directed by Nancy Ghertner.

The film follows the lives of five immigrant farmworker women over a ten-year period as they labor in the apple orchards of rural western New York, migrate seasonally to Florida, raise their families, and try to hide from the Bush-era immigration raids that were conducted in response to 9/11. Filmed in New York, Florida, and Mexico, this intimate, bittersweet, feature-length film illuminates a community that is nearly invisible to most Americans, and will change the way you look at our national “immigration problem.” The film's running time is 93 minutes.

At this time a distribution DVD is in production, and when available will be for sale on the film's website. All proceeds from the presentation of the film, or DVD sales are donated to: Migrant Support Services of Wayne County, a not-for-profit organization which supports the lives of migrant families in Wayne County, New York.

For more information about the production, to read a synopsis of the film, to view the trailer, and more, visit the After I Pick the Fruit website at: http://www.afteripickthefruit.com/.

If you would like to screen the film contact the director through the film's web-site's contact page: http://www.afteripickthefruit.com/contact/ or by direct email: nancyghertner@gmail.com

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