This weekend we open FOOD CHAINS, a new feature documentary that exposes the abuse of farm workers within the United States and the complicity of the multi-billion dollar supermarket and fast food industries. There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farm workers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.
The FOOD CHAINS filmmakers are planning a number of events around the screenings at the Playhouse 7:
November 21st
5:20PM – TENTATIVE PANEL – details tbd
7:30PM – PANEL:
Thomas Saenz (MALDEF)
Lupe Gonzalo (CIW),
Elena Stein (CIW)
November 22nd
5:20PM – PANEL:
David Damien Figueroa (MALDEF, Executive Producer of Food Chains),
Jon Esformes (Operating Partner of Pacific Tomato Growers featured in Food Chains)
7:30PM – PANEL:
Lupe Gonzalo (CIW),
Elena Stein (CIW); UNCONFIRMED PANELIST: Melody and Bobby Kennedy Jr
(After 5:20 screening there will be Wine Happy Hour at Whole Foods Pasadena).
November 23rd
1:00PM – PANEL:
Joann Lo (Food Chains Worker Alliance),
Lupe Gonzalo (CIW),
Elena Stein (CIW)
7:30 PM – TENTATIVE PANEL – details tbd