Shorts 2: A Christmas in Tent City

Running time: 10 mins

Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

Francisco and Roberto Jiménez immigrated to California from Mexico in 1947 when both were young boys. Their parents led them across the border in search of a better life and out of poverty. They arrived dreaming of ?streets lined with gold? only to find a cruel and brutal life in the migrant labor camps of California. In this short film both men remember a Christmas some 60 years ago that defined their family and the experience of so many other migrant worker families in California.