Film depicting Valley water shortage film wins at festival

Source: The Business Journal

A documentary depicting the struggles of migrant farm workers amid the Central Valley water shortage won its latest award at the 2013 International Monarch Film Festival. "The Fight For Water: A Farm Worker Struggle," earned Best Documentary at the annual film festival, which was held Dec. 11 and 12 in Pacific Grove, Calif. Juan Carlos Oseguera, a native of Central Mexico raised in the Central Valley, wrote and directed the film that follows a group of farmers and their farmworkers from the Firebaugh/Mendota area who battle against job losses and fallowed fields in the face of federal environmental rulings in 2008 that reduced the region's water supplies. The film has screened in more than 10 film festivals since its release in September 2012, receiving Best Documentary Honors at the 2013 Viña de Oro International Film Festival and runner-up honors for Best Documentary in Cinematography and Best Political Documentary Film and a nomination in Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2013 Action on Film International Film Festival. The film, Oseguera's directing debut, is currently acquiring sponsors for screening in Sacramento and during Tulare's World Ag Expo being held in February. Oseguera is the child of migrant farmworkers, inspiring the 39-year-old filmmaker to highlight the plight of the farm working community where unemployment has reached as high as 40 percent. Raised in Newman, Calif. in Stanislaus County, Oseguera went on to study film at San Francisco State University, later establishing his own post production editing studio, Filmunition Studios, in 2004. He currently lives and has family in the Firebaugh/Mendota area.

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