Film: "Serán las dueñas de la tierra"
- Event Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
- Time: 5:00 pm–7:00 pm (CDT)
- Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
A new documentary highlights the many difficulties facing an emerging generation of young farmers in Puerto Rico.
Stephanie, Ian and Alfredo are three young farmers who want to grow healthy produce for an island that imports most of its food, including fruits and vegetables. The farms they rent have been abandoned for decades. Their plans to rebuild these lands from the ground up are made that much more difficult by the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and María. Pagán Tetelbaum shows the protagonist’s grit as they attempt to carve out a living without land ownership or capital.
Following the film screening, join us for a roundtable discussion with:
Director: JuanMa Pagán Teitelbaum
Producer and Writer: Mariolga Reyes Cruz
Illinois Facullty/CLACS affiliates: Jose Atiles (Sociology), Carmen Ugarte (Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences) and Nikolai Alvarado (Geography & Geographic Information Science)
Contact
For further information on this event, contact the Museum Information Desk at spurlock-museum@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 333-2360
All participants are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.