This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherry harvests throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. Interviews with women farm workers reveal the dangerous effects of pesticides on their health and that of their children, the problems they encounter as working mothers of young children, and the destructive consequences of U.S. immigration policies on the unity of their families. “An important contribution…Unlike many environmental films, Troubled Harvest underscores the multi-faceted levels of environmental degradation and its effects on women.” Ariel Dougherty, author, Safe PlanetMedia Network Guide to Environmental Film and Video. Directed by Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco, USA, 1990, 30 min.

Cosponsored with the Department of Cinema and Photography, Cinema on the Edge, the Office of the Provost, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Environmental Studies Program, Ithaca College.