Screening: Rape in the Fields

Directed by Lowell Bergman (United States, 2013)

Documentary Screening 

September 4, 2013

Discussion: "Rape in the Fields"

Event Description

The film will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Lowell Bergman, Andrés Cediel, and Bernice Yeung.

Synopsis

For the women who pick and process our food, sexual assault, and even rape, is sometimes part of the job. Frontline and Univisión partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women pay to stay employed and provide for their families. 

Speakers 

Lowell Bergman is a correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline and the director of the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Andrés Cediel produced the documentary “Rape in the Fields.” He is a lecturer in the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Bernice Yeung is a reporter with The Center for Investigative Reporting who focuses on environmental health, and who spent a year reporting on “Rape in the Fields.”

Cosponsors

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Human Rights Center, and the Investigative Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism.

More Information

Read "Rape in the Fields," an article by Bernice Yeung and Andrés Cediel for the Spring 2014 Berkeley Review