The Price of Sugar (2007)

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NR | 1 hr 30 mins | Documentary | Released: 9/26/2007

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Synopsis:

Follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he's warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade. On an island known for tropical beauty, tourists flock to escape winter and relax with little knowledge that just a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are toiling away in unseen plantations harvesting sugarcane most of which ends up in the United States. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare and adequate nutrition. Often they are stateless, with neither Dominican nor Haitian identity and virtually invisible in the eyes of the law.

Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
9/26/2007

Director	Credit
Bill Haney	Director
Cast	Credit
Paul Newman	Narrator
Father Christopher Hartley	Himself
Production Credits	Credit
Debra Longo	Associate Producer
Tim Disney	Executive Producer
Bill Haney	Producer
Diana Trudell	Associate Producer
Eric Grunebaum	Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Uncommon Productions	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Mitropoulos Films	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Locations
Dominican Republic
Writer	Credit
Bill Haney	Screenplay
Peter Rhodes	Screenplay
Film Camera	Credit
Jerry Risius	Cinematographer
Eric Cochran	Cinematographer
Music	Credit
Claudio Ragazzi	Composer
Sound	Credit
John Osborne	Sound

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