POV Acquires Fruits of Labor out of SXSW Film Festival.
POV Acquires Fruits of Labor out of SXSW Film Festival.
New York, N.Y. -- March 31, 2021 -- POV, the acclaimed PBS documentary series, announced today that it had acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to Fruits of Labor directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez which had its world premiere at the 2021 SXSW film festival. The film will have its international festival premiere at Hot Docs, April 29 - May 9, 2021.
Fruits of Labor follows Ashley Solis, a Mexican-American teenager living in an agricultural town on the central coast of California. Ashley dreams of graduating high school and going to college, but when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner of her family, working days in the strawberry fields and...