American Harvest Documentary on DVD now!
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.
It's January 13, 2009 and where has all the furor about immigration reform in the U.S. gone to?
For years people on both sides of the immigration debate have been clamoring with great furor for the United States of America to reform the immigration system. Arguments for both sides had heated up so loudly that no one could hear any civil discourse concerning the issues surrounding the immigration debate.
Now that people are not talking about the immigration issue, is it safe to say that all the associated problems are fixed?
They must be, because at this moment very few people are voicing concern about fixing the immigration system here in America.
I am sure that all of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants have packed it in and have all gone back to their respective countries. It must be that no one is still struggling to get in to the U.S. It must be that all of the children of the illegals have grown up and are all 18 or older and are standing on their own two feet. (I think all the children that have grown up lickety split must have joined the United States Armed Services.)
It must be that all the farm workers in America have been replaced with officially certified U.S. domestic workers that have either run out of their unemployment benefits or have decided to get off their lazy butts and stop taking welfare and started to pay it all back.
I heard a rumor at the diner this morning that the U.S. domestic certification process uses a food coloring stamp on one of your private parts (similar to the one used on beef) so it doesn't harm the environment or contribute to global warming. It's important to keep America safe and clean.
I also heard a rumor that Al Gore invented the blog.
Someone once said "It's the economy stupid!"
Well, for all the rocket scientists out there if you look at our U.S. history, immigration has fueled the economy. During our most prosperous years in the United States, you can point to our greatest economic successes having come during times of robust immigration.
Forrest Gump said, "I didn't mean to fight during your Black Panther party." Gump made a very difficult decision in that juncture of the film to save Jenny.
Perhaps, the American people, U.S. Senators and Congressmen and women can make another difficult decision and treat immigrants, citizens and their businesses fairly and with respect to all as well.
If you would like to know more about the immigration issue you can watch my documentary "American Harvest." It's available on Amazon.com and it's about the role immigrants play on America's farms and the broader issues surrounding the immigration debate.
Angelo Mancuso
Director
p.s. no Rocket Scientists were harmed during the making of American Harvest.
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View the trailer at www.americanharvestmovie.com
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“If you’ve ever eaten fruits and vegetables you must see this film!
Bob Russell, Exec. Director, Little Theater
"Whether you bring to this film your own bias – in either direction – or look at it with an open mind, you will be moved by the power in this narrative. Look for it. It's what a documentary should be."
Nick Francesco - WHAM, Clear Channel
"The documentary 'American Harvest' powerfully portrays the truth about agriculture and migrant labor in the United States at the present time. In a series of candid interviews with farmers and farmworkers from Florida to Maine the viewer objectively learns the facts and dispels the myths connected with migrant farmworkers. The film portrays the migrant reality that can’t be ignored and which is rarely seen by most people. It’s a must see if we are serious about the truth of migrant workers."
Sister Janet Korn, RSM
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Rochester
“As the debate over immigration reform continues, this movie offers a fair and amazingly frank portrait of the challenges that we now face. It accurately represents both the grower and the worker difficulties and offers insight into a side of this issue that is rarely brought to light.”
John Lincoln, President, New York Farm Bureau
“Your film sheds much light on the current national debate over immigration policy. Those of us in agriculture have rarely seen such a balanced, forthright discussion of these issues in any medium. “American Harvest” provides much-needed perspective, one that encourages rational and reasonable debate.”
Don Lipton – Director of Public Relations
American Farm Bureau Federation
"I would encourage all Americans to see your film. American Harvest encourages viewers to look at the immigration issue from the farmers and farmworkers viewpoints a side of the issue that is rarely if ever discussed."
Mike Gempler, President
National Council of Agricultural Employers
“This film is a must see for 99% of the American people that work outside of agriculture.”
Craig Regelbrugge
Co-Chair, Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform
Vice President of Government Relations and Research
American Nursery & Landscape Association
www.saveusfarms.org
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