World Premiere • IFFLA 2026 • Supported by ITVS
Yuba City, California. 1980s. A summer of romance, race wars, and rock and roll. Young Punjabi Sikh farmworkers, unable to attend their local prom, throw the biggest party their small town has ever seen.
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Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
World Premiere | Shorts Program 2 | 12:00pm
Landmark Sunset Hollywood | 8000 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
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The Film
About the Film
Harvest Party at Camp Two is a hybrid documentary set in the California orchards of Yuba City during the 1980s. It was a summer of romance, race wars, and rock and roll, and at the center of it were young Punjabi Sikh farmworkers who, unable to attend their local prom, organized the biggest party their small town had ever seen.
The film weaves archival footage with intimate family storytelling to trace a community whose contributions to American agriculture remain largely untold.
"It all started with a single photo of my dad. At a party I only ever heard whispers about. It made me wonder what else I hadn't been told. What was this party? Why didn't anyone talk about it? How could something so full of life be left out of the story I grew up with?" — Rajan Gill
For co-director Rajan Gill, this is not a history project. It is a film he made because he did not know his own father's story. Kashmir "Kash" Gill, one of the men at the Harvest Party, went on to become the first Sikh elected mayor in U.S. history.
"Yuba City went from being described as the worst city in America to the community these families built, led, and transformed. These are American farmers. They just don't look like the ones you've seen before." — Reaa Puri
Co-Director & Producer
Filmmaker and founder of Reascend Creative. Her work has screened at Sundance, MoMA, DOC NYC, SXSW, and the London Asian Film Festival. Two-time Cannes Lions Gold winner and recipient of the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize and the SFFILM Holbrooke Female Fund. Supported by Netflix, ITVS, SFFILM, CAAM, and UnionDocs. Previous credits include AD on the Netflix feature Mary Kom starring Priyanka Chopra and showrunner of VH1 India's Born Stylish. She grew up between California, India, and Kuwait.
Co-Director & Key Subject
Professor, historian, and farmer who grew up in the agricultural fields of California. His screenwriting captures the authentic experience of immigrants in California's agricultural landscape. 2023/24 Resident Filmmaker at SFFILM and winner of the 2023 Netflix x Tasveer Film Fund. His short Channel Bibi (2024) premiered at Hollyshorts and Tasveer. Harvest Party at Camp Two is his most personal film to date.
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