American Harvest Documentary on DVD now!

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You have undoubtedly found this film from a search concerning immigration or agriculture. Please take a moment to visit www.americanharvestmovie.com to learn more about "American Harvest" and the vital role you as American citizens play when you look at all the facts of a particular debate.

Particularly one as vitally important important as immigration as it relates to agriculture.

We are releasing the film in theaters beginning in June and expect to release the DVD sometime this fall. Visit our website for details.

Thank you,

Angelo Mancuso
Director

DOCUMENTARY, US, 2008, 100 minutes

With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States estimated at 12 million, anti-immigration sentiment has swept across America and immigration has increasingly become a central topic of debate. To explore the issue of immigration from the standpoint of the American farmer as well as through the eyes of the migrant worker, filmmaker Angelo Mancuso and crew traveled to more than a dozen states, into Mexico and visited remote areas of the U.S./Mexico border conducting interviews while covering more than 15,000 miles. The film points out the inconsistencies of the current policy on immigration, revealing the lives of legal and illegal migrants and farmers working toward a better life, and documents the symbiotic relationship that has emerged between them. Is the immigration system in America flawed? And why are immigrants – quite literally – dying to feed America?

Angelo Mancuso has worked on several feature films and has produced and directed shorts, commercials and PSAs over a 13-year career. He makes his directorial debut with American Harvest.

Civil rights group decries tenor of immigration debate...

...They take issue with words such as 'invaders,' 'swarms'

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You have undoubtedly found this film from a search concerning immigration or agriculture. Please take a moment to visit www.americanharvestmovie.com to learn more about "American Harvest" and the vital role you as American citizens play when you look at all the facts of a particular debate.

Particularly one as vitally important important as immigration as it relates to agriculture.

We are releasing the film in theaters beginning in June and expect to release the DVD sometime this fall. Visit our website for details.

Thank you,

Angelo Mancuso
Director

After reading an article in the Houston Chronicle it is important to give an added perspective. The following is a post that I wrote in response to the afore mentioned article.

These civil rights groups make valid points. Isn't the point of an intelligent debate to be about the facts argued and discussed and not about name calling?

Perhaps Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hanity, Pat Buchanan and the like would like to debate me on this issue. After traveling 15,000 miles and conducting interviews of hundreds of people who are at the center of this issue I have come to realize that this is not as black and white as these commentators would lead you to believe. Perhaps they would like to have an intelligent conversation about this issue with me.

Everyday I speak to Americans across the country on both sides of the issue and we discuss and debate the facts. Since these conversations don't involve television ratings they tend to be very productive. if the men and women of talk radio and television would like to relegate their craft to be in effect the equivalent of the "World Wrestling Federation" then so be it.

it is up to moderate Americans like me to call them on it.

Anyone that wants a to see our democracy thrive must look at all the facts. Not just those that suit them. Then and only then can we encourage rational and reasonable debate.

Angelo Mancuso
Director
"American Harvest" documentary - The Real Truth About Immigrant America
http://www.americanharvestmovie.com

Work Ethic vs. the Immigration Issue

Available here on Amazon.com

You have undoubtedly found this film from a search concerning immigration or agriculture. Please take a moment to visit www.americanharvestmovie.com to learn more about "American Harvest" and the vital role you as American citizens play when you look at all the facts of a particular debate.

Particularly one as vitally important important as immigration as it relates to agriculture.

We are releasing the film in theaters beginning in June and expect to release the DVD sometime this fall. Visit our website for details.

Thank you,

Angelo Mancuso
Director

DOCUMENTARY, US, 2008, 100 minutes

With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States estimated at 12 million, anti-immigration sentiment has swept across America and immigration has increasingly become a central topic of debate. To explore the issue of immigration from the standpoint of the American farmer as well as through the eyes of the migrant worker, filmmaker Angelo Mancuso and crew traveled to more than a dozen states, into Mexico and visited remote areas of the U.S./Mexico border conducting interviews while covering more than 15,000 miles. The film points out the inconsistencies of the current policy on immigration, revealing the lives of legal and illegal migrants and farmers working toward a better life, and documents the symbiotic relationship that has emerged between them. Is the immigration system in America flawed? And why are immigrants – quite literally – dying to feed America?

Angelo Mancuso has worked on several feature films and has produced and directed shorts, commercials and PSAs over a 13-year career. He makes his directorial debut with American Harvest.

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Let's face it, there are certain jobs that some Americans won't do. And some of them involve hard work.

Whatever happened to a good old-fashioned work ethic?

This is why many Americans complain about the immigration issue, some of them don’t find physical labor or hot and dirty conditions appealing.

Some jobs like agriculture and farming have gone the way of the migrant worker. If you were an employer whom would you rather have working for you? A hard working immigrant or a soft lazy school kid that is being taught to go to college and get an education instead of learning a trade.

The problem is so complex that no single black and white solution will due.

Somewhere we need to find a balance between immigrant labor and encouraging our young people to learn skills and trades with a purpose as if their entire existence depended on it. This is where immigrant outperforms their American born counterparts.

If you have skills and a work ethic then an employer will find you desirable and want to pay you more money than your less-skilled less-industrious counterpart.

In the mean time we need to fix our broken immigration system.

If you understood the backlog for the ineffectual legal immigration process you would understand why moderate voices are calling for immigration reform.

People and businesses want a legal system that works. We need to compromise on immigration reform.

We need to encourage reasonable and rational debate.


Angelo Mancuso
Director
"American Harvest" documentary - The Real Truth About Immigrant America
http://www.americanharvestmovie.com

Immigration does not effect everyone overtly. But it does effect everyone.

Available here on Amazon.com

You have undoubtedly found this film from a search concerning immigration or agriculture. Please take a moment to visit www.americanharvestmovie.com to learn more about "American Harvest" and the vital role you as American citizens play when you look at all the facts of a particular debate.

Particularly one as vitally important important as immigration as it relates to agriculture.

We are releasing the film in theaters beginning in June and expect to release the DVD sometime this fall. Visit our website for details.

Thank you,

Angelo Mancuso
Director
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Immigration does not effect everyone overtly. But it does effect everyone.

300,000 million people don't give a damn about your life. They care about there own.

So why is the immigration issue important to me?

Because it shapes who we are in America and it shapes our economy and everything we buy, purchase, who we interact with, who are children go to school with, what language we speak and virtually everything that makes up this great experiment called the United States of America.

So lets talk. Let's debate. And let's do it in an open minded fashion that includes the benefits that so many immigrants have provided and downside of our flawed immigration policy.

I hope all the politicians running for President will show the courage required to find the middle ground on immigration reform in the U.S. (I doubt it, but one can always hope.)

Please tell us what you stand for on one of the most complex issues facing America today. We are a nation of immigrants and if we intend on growing this country, the alternative is shrinking it, we need a comprehensive reform plan that takes into account border security as well as the benefits we have received from this growth of population and economy.

Angelo Mancuso
Director
"American Harvest" documentary - The Real Truth About Immigrant America
http://www.americanharvestmovie.com