About this Event
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, join Watsonville is in the Heart and the Watsonville Film Festival for a screening of , a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first generation of Filipino farmworkers to arrive in the Pajaro Valley as seen through the eyes of their children. A Q&A with the team who created the film will follow the screening.
Dear Watsonville was directed by Sandra Lucille and produced by Watsonville is in the Heart. It premired in April 2024 as part of the art and history exhibition, Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley.
Watsonville Film Festival was founded in 2012 with the goal of presenting Latine and Indigenous filmmakers and stories that illuminate our shared humanity and change the narrative about our community. Since the organization’s launch, WFF has established an ecosystem of independent filmmakers in both Watsonville and the greater Monterey Bay region, with its annual festival and year-round programming on top of funding opportunities for emerging filmmakers.
Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-engaged research initiative based at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). WIITH is a collaboration between The Tobera Project, a grassroots Filipino American organization in Watsonville, UCSC faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and descendants of the Pajaro Valley’s first generation of Filipino migrants, known more generally as the manong and manang generation, to settle in the region in the 1920s through 1940s.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
PVA Porter Building, 280 Main Street, Watsonville, United States
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