The Project: film launch events
“Apple Forecast: Immigration Reform”, just five minutes long, was completed in December, 2013. It was launched that month in partnership with the Franciscan Action Network, a faith based program promoting immigration reform to a broad spectrum of people concerned about this issue.
Two successful women, one a North American fruit farmer and the other an undocumented Mexican immigrant working as a supervisor in a fruit processing plant, are caught in the perverse immigration system. They’re impatient for a change and they risk everything by telling their stories.
Please click here to land on the FAN page shown at right, where you can read about the characters in the film and find out more about FAN’s activities in support of immigration reform.
FAN has created this special page on their website, featured the film in their online newsletter, posted it on Facebook and other social media, and sent the link to key organizations and individuals working on immigration reform, reaching nearly 10,000 contacts directly. FAN encourages those contacts to forward the link to their constituencies as well.
The first film, captioned “Farm Labor” premiered at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, organized by Esperanza, in Washington DC in June 2013. “Farm Labor” was distributed as a DVD to members of Congress in the NHPB lobbying visits and it was given to the 600+ Latino conference delegates for use back home. After the conference, which was the primary venue for the film, it was also posted here, on the internet.
“The conference, held in Washington, D.C. on June 18-20, 2013, not only trained participants on advocacy issues, but also created an opportunity for dialogue with Congressional members on
the topic of immigration reform. On June 19, 2013, Rev. Cortes led over 300 clergy and community leaders from across the nation to Capitol Hill for over 100 meetings with members of Congress...
from both sides of the aisle.” – HispanicBusiness.com
And see it here, posted by the Salvadoran Institute of the Migrant, a public policy group based in Los Angeles.
“The conference, held in Washington, D.C. on June 18-20, 2013, not only trained participants on advocacy issues, but also created an opportunity for dialogue with Congressional members on
the topic of immigration reform. On June 19, 2013, Rev. Cortes led over 300 clergy and community leaders from across the nation to Capitol Hill for over 100 meetings with members of Congress...
from both sides of the aisle.” – HispanicBusiness.com
And see it here, posted by the Salvadoran Institute of the Migrant, a public policy group based in Los Angeles.