Monday, May 13, 2002

Co-Presented with the USD Office for Community Service-Learning, Department of Public Safety, and United Front

“Uneasy Neighbors”

Followed by a discussion with Paul Espinosa, Film Director and Producer

This 1990s documentary is a profile of growing tensions between migrant worker camps and affluent homeowners in north San Diego county, one of the richest and fastest-growing areas in the U.S. Here, sharing the same valleys, are homeowners concerned about property values and sanitation, and migrant workers, living in conditions that most Americans expect only in the Third World. This program chronicles the life and death of the Green Valley camp, home to thousands of workers for the last ten years, many of them legalized under the 1986 immigration bill.

San Diego filmmakers Paul Espinosa and Mark Day are currently working on a documentary on the hate crime against migrant workers that occurred in Rancho Peñasquitos during the summer of 2000.

Paul Espinosa is an award-winning Independent Producer/Writer/ Director based in San Diego. He has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University, where he specialized in the cultural analysis of television communication. He has created many documentaries and docudramas about the Mexican experience in the U.S. He has received seven Emmys, four CINE Golden Eagle awards, two Ohio State awards, and a Golden Mike award.