Pajaro Valley Magazine March 11, 2022

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FIELDS AND DREAMS The documentary ‘Fruits of Labor,’ about Watsonville teenager Ashley Pavon, is one of the featured films at this year’s Watsonville Film Festival.

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bringing people together through film.”

The festival’s reach has continued to grow every year; a single festival has transformed into a yearround nonprofit that hosts events and works with other organizations, schools and businesses.

“I am incredibly proud, and grateful for our team, “Alba said, “and for everyone who has been involved in this organization for all this time … but all the new faces as well. It’s just a really, really wonderful feeling to get to this point.”

WFF’s 8th annual festival was one of the first in-person events in Santa Cruz County to be canceled when Covid hit in March 2020.

So the group eventually shifted its focus to virtual events, creating its

very own streaming platform in 2021.

In the process, WFF’s reach has expanded exponentially.

“We are reaching more than ever,” Alba says. “Beyond Santa Cruz County, beyond Monterey Bay, even beyond California.

Our program is attracting a lot of attention.”

Virtual screenings will continue to be a part of this year’s festival, which kicks off today and runs through March 20. More than 30 films are now available to watch for free online at watsonvillefilmfest.org.

One of these films, Fruits of Labor is centered in Watsonville.

The acclaimed 2021 documentary follows a teenager named Ashley

who is balancing school, applying for college, and personal life while also working in the fields and local factories to help support her family.

Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez, the film had its world premiere at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas and has impressed audiences and critics across the U.S. “I love coming-of-age stories, but I didn’t see those afforded to women of color, especially working women of color,” Ibañez says.

“I wanted Ashley to be her full self as a teenager. This is an unusual film about farm labor. People are used to seeing historical icons, or a very issue-driven film that focused on social ills. Sometimes what can happen is folks of color ➝ 6

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decade ago, a small group of people gathered at the Henry J. Mello Center in Watsonville to enjoy films, promote filmmakers and celebrate the creativity of the local arts community.

The first-ever Watsonville Film Festival was supposed to be a one-time event. But its success ignited interest in both organizers and South County residents who attended.

“All of us realized, ‘There is something here. We have to continue,’” says Watsonville Film Festival (WFF) Executive Director Consuelo Alba. “And we keep saying that every year. There is something very powerful and magical about

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can become stand-ins for social problems.”

Ibañez said that Ashley and her family are excited that the film will be featured at WFF. “WFF is a wonderful festival, but it’s also the hometown of the film,” Ibañez says. “There is so much hometown pride with this festival, and we’re honored and excited to be part of it.”

Other films that will be available free online include The Mole Agent, an Academy Award-winning documentary from Chile about an elderly person who takes a job as a detective inside an assisted-living facility; and Treasures, a film from Mexico about a family who moves from the city to a small fishing town, where they connect more closely with each other, the community and the environment.

“The selection of films is very strong this year,” Alba says. “And most of the films are directed by women–which is really exciting, because these are important stories we rarely see.”

But having an in-person component to the event was also important to organizers. On March 12 at 6pm, WFF will host an opening-night event at the Mello Center, screening the award-winning film Real Women Have Curves, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It will include a special appearance by playwright and screenwriter Josefina López.

“It is a really important American indie film,” Alba says. “It was very influential. It broke ground in 2002 by focusing on a young Latina immigrant in L.A., on her dreams, inspirations and self love.

It challenged all Hollywood conventions at the time. Our hope is to introduce this film to a new generation of Latinas.”

WFF will also introduce its first cohort of Cine Se Puede fellows at the event. Cine Se Puede, launched last year, is a fellowship aiming to support emerging local filmmakers, assisting with funding of up to $1,000 per project. Participants will learn to pitch stories and projects, improve proposals, budgets, marketing and distribution plans. Fellows will have the chance to pitch projects to experts at the festival.

CULTURAL EVENT Consuelo Alba (second from left) with the White Hawk Aztec Dancers at a WFF event.

“I’m so excited about this inaugural cohort,” says Brenda Avila-Hanna, who works for WFF’s Artist Development and is a member of the Programming Team.

“They are all incredibly talented and resilient. Many have been working here for many years, some have screened their work at the festival. We have seen them grow from students to this professional stage.”

Avila-Hanna says that the fellowship, as well as the fact that the festival is free and easily accessible, makes it stand out.

“Our hope is that we continue to shift the culture around film festivals,” she says. “Reimagining what they could be, with a different audience who is not traditionally catered to by these events.”

The festival is also collaborating with PBS’ award-winning documentary series POV, which will help promote the festival within its networks.

“It’s really exciting,” Alba says.

“It’s taking our work and exposure to another level.”

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TEAMWORK The Watsonville Film Festival team at a previous event.

Looking ahead, Alba said her hope is that WFF will help Watsonville become a hub for filmmaking, fostering both seasoned and brand new filmmakers and allowing Latino artists especially to feel supported and inspired.

“We’ve always been about promoting the talent, the potential, the economic development of Watsonville,” she said. “We want to put

it on the map as a place to watch amazing films for years to come.”

The Watsonville Film Festival will be held March 11-20. To register for the March 12 event, find a full schedule or donate to the organization, visit watsonvillefilmfestival.org.

WATSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL FEATURELENGTH FILMS Real Women Have Curves

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Director: Patricia Cardoso A coming-of-age story about a young Mexican-American woman (America Ferrera) on the cusp of adulthood, Real Women Have Curves was co-written—and based on the stage play—by Josefina López who wrote about her own life as a child of immigrants in Los Angeles.

El Agente Topo / The Mole Agent Director: Maite Alberdi When 83-year-old Sergio is sent as an undercover spy to a Chilean retirement home to track suspected elder abuse, he learns a deeper lesson about human connection. Through the lens of the hidden camera in his decoy glasses, viewers watch as Sergio struggles to balance his assignment with his increasing involvement in the lives of residents.

Fruits of Labor

Sin señas particulares / Identifying Features Directors: Fernanda Valadez & Astrid Rondero A mother travels from Guanajuato to the border in search of her son, whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States. Desperate to find out what happened to him—and to know whether or not he’s even alive—she embarks on an

ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth.

Tesoros / Treasures Director: María Novaro In the town of Barra de Potosí, a small fishing community on the Mexican Pacific coast, a group of children are certain that together— and with the right map—they will find a pirate’s treasure that has been hiding nearby for centuries.

But what they are about to find is something far more valuable than a treasure. A film for children, their parents and their grandparents.

Los Hermanos / The Brothers Directors: Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider Ilmar and Aldo are virtuoso Cubanborn brothers living on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half century wide. Tracking their parallel lives, poignant reunion, and momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos / The Brothers offers a nuanced view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family.

Cosas que no hacemos / Things We Dare Not Do Director: Bruno Santamaría In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.

El Canto de las Mariposas / The Song of the Butterflies Director: Núria Frigola Torrent Rember Yahuarcani, an indigenous artist from an almost-extinguished nation, returns to his grandmother’s land looking for inspiration and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.

Siqueiros: Walls of Passion Directors: Lorena Manriquez & Miguel Picker Siqueiros: Walls of Passion profiles the great Mexican muralist and activist David Alfaro Siqueiros and the resurrection of his Los Angeles mural América Tropical, located at the birthplace of Los Angeles and later championed by the Chicano movement as a symbol of its oppressed culture.

Landfall Director: Cecilia Aldarondo When Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in 2017, the US territory was already $72 billion in debt. Landfall examines the kinship of these two storms—one environmental, the other economic— juxtaposing competing visions of recovery.

Oaxacalifornia: The Return Director: Trisha Ziff An intimate portrait of three generations of a Mexican-American ➝ 8

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Director: Emily Cohen Ibañez Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager living in Watsonville, dreams of graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company.

CINEMATIC TREASURE “Tesoros,” which will be screened at this year’s event, tells the story of a group of kids who go searching for pirate loot.

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family in California, Oaxacalifornia: The Return revisits the Mejía family 25 years after they were first portrayed negotiating their place in a new environment.

El Oficio del Arte / The Work of Art Directors: Shelly Errington & José Luis Reza This documentary takes us into the homes, minds and hearts of folk artists in Mexico, who reveal their craft practices and family life in their own words. Social and economic issues emerge discreetly as we follow their work processes and efforts to gain recognition for their art.

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Director: Oscar Molina La Casa de Mama Icha offers a profound meditation on notions of home and the inescapable pull of one’s motherland. The documentary follows María Dionisia Navarro, otherwise known as Mama Icha, on a physical and spiritual journey that draws on the complexities inherent to many migrant experiences: distance, the loved ones left behind, and the problem of aging in a country that doesn’t feel like your own.

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Five Years North Directors: Zach Ingrasci & Chris Temple Five Years North is the comingof-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who has just arrived alone in New York City. He struggles to work, study, and evade officer Judy, the Cuban-American ICE officer patrolling his neighborhood.

Mariposas del Campo Directors: Bill Yahraus & Robin Rosenthal Indigenous teenagers from Mexico strive to change their families’ destinies in the strawberry fields of Oxnard, California. Through a stormy year of sanctioned racism and anti-immigrant policies, their journeys are captured as they

navigate school, cultural identity, parental expectations, economic challenges, and the justice needs of their migrant farmworker community.

SHORT FILMS Águilas / Eagles Directors: Kristy GuevaraFlanagan & Maite Zubiaurre Along the scorching desert border in Arizona, it is estimated that only one out of every five missing migrants are ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers, the Águilas del Desierto.

In these hostile and treacherous lands, every bone has a story.

Lupita: Que retiemble la tierra Director: Mónica Wise Robles In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced, their land stolen, where students disappear without trace following police arrest, and journalists are murdered at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice emerges. Lupita, a Tzotzil Maya massacre survivor, is at the forefront of a new movement of indigenous women.

Amor en Cuarentena Director: Eugenia Rentería During the pandemic, Emi feels stuck in a box, and from boredom or desperation, she starts looking for love… virtually. What can go wrong?

Disposable Director: Marcus Cisneros / Producer Gabriel J. Medina World premiere. After fleeing a civil war in Mexico, two undocumented laborers find work during a global pandemic in the US, only to discover they’ve been lured into a frightening situation.

Death and Deathability (A Period Piece) Director: Maria Victoria Ponce Mystified by the unexpected arrival of her first period, Ceci (Blanca

Ordaz) concludes she must be dying. She prepares a bucket list to accomplish on her final day, including her first real kiss and her own funeral, because death should be an art.

Dial Home Director: Cesar Martinez Barba Within the walls of a Tijuana call center, a feeling of being in limbo pervades. Homesickness floods the telephone line as call center personnel deported from the United States engage in conversations from across the US-Mexico border.

Abuelos Director: Rodrigo Reyes / Producer Andrew Houchens Separated by years of immigration policy, a young girl dreams of meeting her grandmother for the first time. Thanks to the bi-national cooperation of governments on both sides of the US/Mexico border, her grandmother embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to reunite with her undocumented loved ones.

First Time Home Co-directors: Heriberto Ventura, Noemi Librado Sanchez, Esmirna Librado & Esmeralda Ventura When they learn their grandfather is ill, four cousins travel from their Indigenous Triqui immigrant community in California to their ancestral village in Mexico for the first time.

Keeper of the Fire: Alejandro Murguía Directors: David L. Brown and Louis F. Dematteis Following the life and work of activist, author and San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia, Keeper of the Fire explores the roles this outspoken poet has played in the fight for a more just and equitable world.

La Perla Del Pacifico Director: Carlos Campos Gambino and Anna set out to create a restaurant that would support their family; little did they know of the impact it would have

on the small rural community of Watsonville.

Oda a los Frijoles Co-creators: Karolina Esqueda & Brenda Avila-Hanna A literary and visual rendition of beans, Oda a los Frijoles merges a cooking recipe with archival footage of immigrants and fieldworkers, creating a parallel between tradition and immigration.

Painter of Dreams Director: Gabriel J. Medina A short documentary about artist Guillermo “Yermo” Aranda and his effort to repaint his iconic “Dreams” mural at Watsonville High School after it was covered up. Named 2022 Santa Cruz Artist of the Year, Aranda creates his murals through an inclusive community process that involves mentoring young children and adults who want to learn and assist with painting.

To the Future with Love Director: Shaleece Haas Meet 19-year-old Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez, a nonbinary trans boy caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his dreams of living happily ever after.

Tony’s Cakes Directors: Tony Holman & Vida deKayla A man with a troubled past finds redemption in building his own bakery in the East Bay.

25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln Director: Ellen Brodsky Join the quest with 25 intrepid history students who drive 2,000 miles from the Alamo in Texas to a Springfield, Illinois museum.

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APTOS

WATSONVILLE

831 .6 88.726 6

831 . 72 2 . 201 8

9077 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003

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20 09

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