The Price of Sugar

How much is too much?

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Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton
Friday October 31, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Conserver House, 180 St. John St.

US / 2007 / 105 min

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. Host: Haiti Action Fredericton.

Film by Bill Haney.

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