Screening: Sunday, Sep 14, 12:45pm at Soo Theatre (Block 12) |
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Director: Stephany Slaughter
Documentary Feature, United States, 2025, 60 min, Color
Did You Guys Eat?/¿Ya Comieron? Stories of Michigan Agriculture is a journey into the heart of Mid-Michigan’s agricultural landscape—one of the most diverse in the nation. Second only to California in crop variety, Michigan’s farms are as varied as the people who work them.
This documentary follows the rhythm of the growing season, focusing on the individuals whose labor brings food to our tables: small family farmers, organic growers, and the often-overlooked seasonal migrant workers. Did You Guys Eat?/¿Ya Comieron? goes beyond the fields and greenhouses to also highlight the support network that cares for the well-being of those who help us eat.
This is not just a film about farming—it is about the people, the challenges, and the unseen systems that make each meal possible.
The subject of the film is Mid-Michigan’s rich agricultural landscape and the people involved in it.
Director: Stephany Slaughter
Producers: Stephany Slaughter, Nick Wracan
Dr. Stephany Slaughter is the Director of the Andison Center for Teaching Excellence and a professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies at Alma College.
She teaches classes related to language, literature, and culture of Latin America. In addition, she pursues research in gender studies; cultural studies; Latin American (especially Mexican) film, theater, performance; borders and immigration; and representations of the Mexican Revolution.
With an interest in game-based learning, she co-authored the Reacting to the Past game: Mexico in Revolution, 1912-1920.
She won the Andison Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011 and 2019, and the Excellence in Inclusion award in 2022. She was honored to receive the Athena Award from the Gratiot County Chamber of Commerce in 2025.
Dr. Slaughter enjoys interdisciplinary opportunities and has collaborated with faculty in other departments in recent years to help produce several film projects. These projects include the fiction shorts Break My Bones(Anthony Collamati, 2016), Base Camp(Collamati 2018), and the dance-for-camera short, Uprooted (Rosely Conz and Stephany Slaughter 2019).
She is currently working with Professor Nick Wracan and Dr. Ben Peterson on a multimedia project that includes the documentary screened in this block.
The first film she helped produce was the Emmy-award-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary, Which Way Home (Cammisa 2009), which follows unaccompanied minors on their journey across Mexico towards the US on the train known as “La Bestia.”
Dr. Slaughter also works with several equity-focused groups on and off campus, including the DIAB (Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board), Latinos Unidos, Safe Zone and LGBTQ+ advocacy, The Mid-Michigan Migrant Resource Council (MMMRC), and MIRC (Michigan Immigrant Rights Center).
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