Migrant Child Farmworkers: Now High-Profile Professionals ©
Xolo Maridueña photo of the on camera film presenter
Presented on camera by Xolo Maridueña
MIGRANT CHILD FARMWORKERS: NOW HIGH-PROFILE PROFESSIONALS© FILM TEASER
Untold stories of potential

Xolo Maridueña (Star of Blue Beetle, and Cobra Kai) is the on-camera presenter of a new original documentary film, Migrant Child Farmworkers: Now High-Profile Professionals©. In it Xolo tells the inspiring stories of eleven individuals* who are former full time migrant child farmworkers. Growing up they experienced seemingly impossible hardships including homelessness, hunger, poverty, neglect and abuse. Yet each of them found a way to become a successful high-profile professional in spite of what they went through as children.

Today they are doctors, medical researchers, an entertainment attorney, engineers, leaders in education and individuals elected to the U.S. Congress and California state government. Their impressive accomplishments include authoring hundreds of scientific research papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine; contributing in the engineering and development of pivotal Apple products such as the iPad and MacBook Pro and teaching medicine at UCSF Fresno and Stanford School of Medicine.

One of the individuals featured in the film earned his law degree at UCLA and is now a successful Hollywood talent manager and producer. He’s Xolo’s long time business manager. The pair are pushing to find new ways for a greater number of individuals of color, including Latinos, to gain access to more and better entertainment industry opportunities. They are developing, as well as advocating for, new programming which delivers a more accurate and realistic portrayal members of their community and of all people of color in movies, television and every form of media. All the while Xolo and Brandon actively resist and reject offers to play gang bangers, drug dealers, thieves and the like (across all forms of media, past and present ).

The success of those featured in this film showcase what is indeed possible for anyone. The stories told here authoritatively debunk the modern (same old) counterfactual narrative about Latinos, refugees, immigrants, migrant farm laborers, and others vilified by society. A timely reminder for audiences that every child is endowed with limitless potential, no matter their background or circumstances. As such, deserves to be treated with dignity, seen as equally important, considered to have valuable potential and worthy of receiving every opportunity to flourish.

*(some featured are the children of migrant farmworkers)

Former Working Title: Told They Can’t