The Price of Sugar
How much is too much? With a special guest facilitator from Fair Trade Algoma
Sault Ste Marie
Friday August 22, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Algoma University (1520 Queen Street East) in the Great West Life Amphitheatre (Room NW 200)
United States / 2007 / 90 Minutes
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, 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. Narrated by Paul Newman, "The Price of Sugar" follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced.
Special Guest Facilitator: Fair Trade Algoma
Featuring Father Christopher Hartley
Narrated by Paul Newman
Directed by Bill Haney
Produced by Bill Haney and Eric Grunebaum
Executive Producer: Tim Disney
Associate Producers: Debra Longo, Diana Trudell and Noemi Araujo Martinez
Cinematographers: Jerry Risius and Eric Cochran
Composer: Claudio Ragazzi
Editor: Peter Rhodes
Assistant Editor: Nikki Bramley
Written by Bill Haney & Peter Rhodes
