Documentary about Merced County farmworkers march on DVD
A film about the 2009 march Merced County farmworkers staged to draw attention to their struggle is now on DVD.
The feature-length documentary “The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle” tells the story of the four-day march that started April 14, 2009, and took farmworkers, farmers and other supporters 50 miles from Mendota to the San Luis Reservoir.
The film features Westside farmers and families in food lines set up by the Fresno County Food Bank in the year that followed the march.
About 200,000 people were affected, beginning in 2008, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put in place policies to restrict the water pumped into Central Valley farmland. The policies protected the endangered delta smelt, but made work scarce for migrant farmworkers.
The 77-minute film was edited, produced, written and directed by Juan Carlos Oseguera, 41, a San Francisco State University and Orestimba High graduate.
The film is available at most online DVD retailers.
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“The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle”
For more information about the film and where to find it, go to thefightforwaterfilm.com. Or visit the Facebook page at facebook.com/thefightforwaterfilm.
This story was originally published August 20, 2015 at 4:24 PM with the headline "Documentary about Merced County farmworkers march on DVD."