Uneasy Neighbors

"an illuminating lesson in the misery suffered by too many people in this smugly, callously prosperous community." San Diego Union

"offers a remarkably intimate look at this makeshift, migrant community"

"...this program can help educate people." Coast Dispatch

"...shows the human side of a problem that is too-often couched in political rhetoric..." Los Angeles Times

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A documentary profile of growing tensions between migrant worker camps and affluent homeowners in north San Diego county, one of the richest and fastest-growing areas in the United States. Here, sharing the same valleys, are homeowners concerned about property values and sanitation, and migrant workers, living in conditions which most Americans expect only in the Third World. This program chronicles the life and death of the Green Valley camp, home to thousands of workers over the last ten years, many of them legalized under the 1986 immigration bill.

En Español

Key Production Staff

Producer

Director/Writer

Videographer

Editor

Associate Producer

Script Consultant

Narrator

Paul Espinosa

Martin Zimmerman

Philip Doucet

Leslie Peters

Dr. Leo Chavez

Bob Landers

Press Release and Reviews

Press Release En Español

The San Diego Union

TV Guide

KPBS On Air

The Coast Dispatch

The Los Angeles Times

Funding

KPBS Local Programming Production Fund

Awards and Honors

Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival, 1992

Best Television Documentary, National Conference of Christians and Jews, San Diego Chapter, 1990

Finalist, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, 1990

Honorable Mention, Documentary, San Antonio CineFestival, 1990

Silver Award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Local Programming Awards, 1990

Honorable Mention, Best Documentary Made for Television, National Latino Film and Video Festival "Cine de Mestizaje," 1991

Emmy Nominee, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Diego Chapter, for Best Documentary, 1989

Honorable Mention, Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Video Festival, 1992

Investigative/Enterprise Reporting, Second Place, San Diego County Press Award, Society of Professional Journalists, 1990

Included in pilot of "American Pie," PBS series on the Best of Local Programming, 1991

Screened in "Beyond the Browning of America," Deep Dish T.V. Network, 1991

Selected for inclusion in "Los Vecinos/The Neighbors," a special international exhibition of images of life on the U.S./Mexico border by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego and exhibited throughout Mexico by the National Council of Culture and the Arts, 1991

National PBS Broadcast: January 10, 1990

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