Working Immigrants Movies

This feature length documentary tells the story of three Latino wine makers in California's Napa Valley. From their humble beginnings as immigrant laborers working the grape harvests in California, to their now formidable positions as wine makers and wine consultants, they are witnesses to the new...

An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him.

A Latinx immigrant mother makes waves with a historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with ICE.

Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of the film, which follows the process of affective reconstruction of director Marcos Yoshi's family, crossed by the flow of migrations between Brazil and Japan, known as the dekassegui phenomenon. The story of a...

A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change.

The Italian children who grew up in Switzerland between 1950 and 1970 were considered illegal. The law allowed guest workers to work, but not to raise their children here. Many seasonal workers defied the legislation because they wanted to keep their family together. Their children, who now live...