MHRFF Quebec Prize for Socially Engaged Documentary

Every year, some 4,000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico labour in Québec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Pérez, a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms South of Montreal. She informs them of their rights, protects them from abuse, and struggles to bring them together under a union that would extend to them the same rights enjoyed by Canadian agricultural workers. This film is a portrait of a fight against the injustices of globalization not in the Third World, but here at home - in the Canadian farms that provide us with our summer vegetables.

Charles Latour
Charles Latour is a Québec film-maker who learned his craft at the UQAM. Taken under the wing of veteran documentarist Robert Cornellier at Macumba films, Charles worked as cameraman and assistant director in a number of the company’s productions. Los Mexicanos, The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Pérez, which has been shown in several festivals, is Charles’s first documentary. He is now in pre-production for his second film, which looks at the impact of migrant seasonal work on a Mexican town.