The Price of Sugar

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Vancouver Public Library
Friday March 14, 2008
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Vancouver Public Library, Alice MacKay Room (Georgia @ Homer)

USA/Dominican Republic/2007/90 min. Spanish with Eng. subtitles

On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work grueling hours and frequently lack decent housing, clean water, electricity, education or healthcare. "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced. Narrated by Paul Newman."The Price of Sugar" raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.

Directed by Bill Haney
Produced by Bill Haney and Eric Grunebaum
Executive Producer: Tim Disney
Cinematographers: Jerry Risius and Eric Cochran
Composer: Claudio Ragazzi
Sound: John Osborne

Narrated by Paul Newman
Edited by Peter Rhodes
Written by Bill Haney & Peter Rhodes
Associate Producers: Debra Longo, Diana Trudell and Noemi Araujo Martinez
Assistant Editor: Nikki Bramley
Post Production: PostWorks, New York
Sound Mix: Heart Punch Studios

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