Video Showings-Dec. 1st and 5th
Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30 pm, Sequim Library, 630 N Sequim Ave.
Saturday, December 5th at 2:00 pm, Port Angeles Library, 2210 S Peabody St.
“Farmingville” documentary showing in Sequim and Port Angeles
The Stop the Checkpoints Committee will hold two showings of “Farmingville”, a documentary which puts a human face on the current debate around “guest worker” and other proposed immigration reforms. Filmmakers Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini spent a year in the small Long Island town making this 2003 Sundance award winning film.
Farmingville (80 min. English/Spanish w/English subtitles) portrays the chilling hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers in the small town of Farmingville, Long Island, which catapult the population and the immigration issue into the national headlines, unmasking a frontline of the new border wars – suburbia.
This bilingual, verité documentary allows many players in the story – long term residents, day laborers, elected officials, and advocates on all sides of the issue – to speak for themselves, offering a rare and intimate glimpse behind the headlines. The Stop The Checkpoints committee is working to start a productive local conversation about immigration policies and civil liberties, particularly as they play out on the Olympic Peninsula.
Showings, which are free and open to all, will be held at 6:30 pm Tuesday, December 1 at the Sequim Library and at 2:00 pm Saturday, December 5 at the Port Angeles Library. For information about the event contact Lois Danks, Stop the Checkpoints Coordinator at 452-7534. For more information about the film visit the website www.farmingvillethemovie.com.
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