Featuring
Min Sook Lee · 2016 · 1h28m
A powerful documentary that exposes the under-told story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Saturday, Mar. 08, 3:30pm
Migrant Dreams
Cinema Politica Fredericton & the Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre present –
Migrant Justice Film Festival
Saturdays in March at 3:30 PM
Gallery on Queen, 406 Queen St., Fredericton
With refreshments
March 8 / International Women’s Day – Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams tells the undertold story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that treats foreign workers as modern-day indentured labourers and ties low-wage migrants to one employer. Film by Min Sook-Lee.
March 22 – The Infiltrators
The Infiltrators is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center – on purpose. Film by Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera.
March 29 – Chaos and Control
Chaos and Control is a portrait of the lives lived by migrant workers and the challenges they face in New Brunswick. Film by Drew Gilbert and Amy Floyd. [This film is also playing in Saint John on March 13 at 6:00 PM at Haven Music Hall, 201 Union St.].
Supported by Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network and Gallery on Queen.
For more information, contact fredericton@cinemapolitica.org.
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