The Hand That Feeds

Maine Film Center and Colby Center for Arts and Humanities present:

Cinema in Conversation:

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Programmed and sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities

Co-sponsored by the Oak Institute for Human Rights and the Colby College Departments of Cinema Studies, Spanish, and Religious Studies.

Post-film Q&A with subject Mahoma López!

At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back. Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick’s feature on the unionization effort of workers at Hot & Crusty bakery in New York City is “a tribute to American labor…socially conscious documentary filmmaking at its best” –Peter Keough, The Boston Globe.