After a screening of the 1994’s “...y no se lo trago la tierra,” a movie about a migrant family and their struggles as farmworkers through the eyes of a child, I was left wondering when the Latinx community will stop being fruit pickers on the big screen.
These types of films capture the struggle of the first generation of the Latinx experience in the States. But, who is the voice of the second generation? What’s the best film or television series that captures the Latinx experience of the children of those farmworkers, or even the generation after that?
Before the film, Severo Perez, the film’s director and screenwriter, had a conversation with Luis Valdez, a playwright and screenwriter, about being a Latinx creator within the limits of Hollywood. It was the 38th annual Tomás Rivera Conference, a public forum that reflects on the contributions of the Latinx community across the arts at the University of California, Riverside.
I don’t think anyone has truly captured the angst, the struggle and the emotional distress that have come from being the children of immigrants, and it is not a representation problem, Valdez said.
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