Original Documentary Film Preview

Xolo Maridueña (Star of Blue Beetle, and Cobra Kai) is the on-camera presenter of a new original documentary film, Migrant Child Farmworkers Now High-Profile Professionals^©. The film features the inspiring stories of eleven individuals who grew up working as full-time migrant child farmworkers (or are children of migrant farmworkers). On top working full time during their childhoods, they faced seemingly impossible hardships including homelessness, hunger, poverty, neglect, abuse and discrimination. In spite of everything, each became a successful, high-profile professional. These modern role models are likely unknown to most of society. This film aims to celebrate each of them and their accomplishments.

Today they are doctors, medical researchers, an entertainment attorney, engineers, leaders in education and individuals elected to the U.S. Congress and California state government. Their impressive accomplishments include authoring hundreds of scientific research papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine; contributing in the engineering and development of pivotal Apple products such as the iPad and MacBook Pro and teaching medicine at UCSF Fresno and Stanford School of Medicine.

One of the featured migrant child farmworkers, Brandon Guzmán, came out of the fields, earned his law degree at UCLA and is a successful Hollywood talent manager and producer. He’s also Xolo’s long time business manager. The pair work together to multiply the number of Latinos, and all individuals of color, who can access the best entertainment industry job opportunities. They also develop and advocate for new programming that portrays their community members, and all people of color, more accurately on the screen in movies, television and all forms of media. Xolo and Brandon actively resist and reject the stereotypical Hollywood casting offers to play a gang banger, drug dealer, thug, thief and the like.

The success of those featured in this film showcase what is indeed possible for anyone. Their lives and stories authoritatively debunk today’s (same old) counterfactual narrative about Latinos, refugees, immigrants, migrant farm laborers, and others wrongly vilified in our society. A timely reminder for audiences that every child is endowed with limitless potential, no matter their background or circumstances. As such, deserves to be treated with dignity, seen as equally important, considered to have limitless potential and therefore worthy to be given every opportunity to flourish.

 

*(some Featured individuals are Children of Farmworkers)