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Independent Lens Presents Los Trabajadores
 It's 1999, and the city of Austin, Texas, is
growing — thanks in part to men like Ramon Castillo Aparacio of
Mexico and Juan Ignacio Gutierrez of Nicaragua. They work difficult jobs in
an America that wants their labor as long as they go back to their home
countries when they're done. Through the two men's lives and a battle
over Austin's controversial day labor program, the award-winning
documentary Los Trabajadores reveals the contradiction of
America's dependence on and discrimination against immigrant
labor.
Sounds and images of manual labor and construction set the scene of a
city developing at the hands of those who have been excluded from the
prosperity they help to create. As Gutierrez says, "They say Austin is
growing, or this country is growing, but thanks to whom?"
Los Trabajadores airs Monday,
March 31, at 9pm on WGBH 44.
–Los
Trabajadores on the Web
On Tuesday, March 11, at 6:30pm, Ford
Hall Forum is presenting a free public screening of Los
Trabajadores followed by a discussion about immigrant labor in the
US, which will be Webcast on the WGBH
Forum Network.
Moderating the discussion is Joseph Tovares, filmmaker and managing
producer of
La Plaza, WGBH's 25-year-old weekly series that focuses on
Latino life and issues.
The screening and discussion take place at the Raytheon Amphitheater of
Northeastern University's Egan Center at 120 Forsyth Street in
Boston.
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