Uneasy Neighbors: A Documentary Film from Espinosa Productions: Using the Power of Media to tell Chicano/Latino Stories

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In the Shadow of the Law The Lemon Grove Incident Ballad of an Unsung Hero The Trail North

The Life and Times of Padre Martinez Everybody Loves Ramón Divided Lives: Voices of Oaxacan Women in a Transborder World Pain and Privilege in Rancho Peñasquitos El Paso del Norte

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"an illuminating lesson in the misery suffered by too many people in this smugly, callously prosperous community." San Diego Union-Tribune
"offers a remarkably intimate look at this makeshift, migrant community."
"...this program can help educate people."
Coast Dispatch
"...shows the human side of a problem that is too-often couched in political rhetoric..." Los Angeles Times

A documentary profile of growing tensions between migrant worker camps and affluent homeowners in north San Diego county, one of the richest and fastest-growing areas in the United States. Here, sharing the same valleys, are homeowners concerned about property values and sanitation, and migrant workers, living in conditions which most Americans expect only in the Third World. This program chronicles the life and death of the Green Valley camp, home to thousands of workers over the last ten years, many of them legalized under the 1986 immigration bill.

Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival
Best Television Documentary, National Conference of Christians and Jews, San Diego Chapter
Finalist, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
Honorable Mention, Documentary, San Antonio CineFestival
Silver Award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Local Programming Awards
Emmy Nominee, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Diego Chapter, for Best Documentary

Honorable Mention, Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Video Festival
Investigative/Enterprise Reporting, Second Place, San Diego County Press Award, Society of Professional Journalists
Included in pilot of "American Pie," PBS series on the Best of Local Programming
Selected for inclusion in "Los Vecinos/The Neighbors," a special international exhibition of images of life on the U.S./Mexico border by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego and exhibited throughout Mexico by the National Council of Culture and the Arts

For more information about this topic, check out the following links:

NOW: Migrant Labor in the United States: This online resource takes an in-depth look at migrant workers and their families throughout the 20th century and into today.

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Uneasy Neighbors (1990)

Producer/Director/Writer
Videographer
Editor

Paul Espinosa
Martin Zimmerman
Philip Doucet

KPBS Local Programming Production Fund