The Price of Sugar
Documentary | Spanish, Haitian Creole with English subtitles | 90 minutes
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The Vicini family owns one of the largest sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.To help harvest the sugar cane, Vicini recruits hundreds of impoverished migrants from nearby Haiti. Vicini is all-powerful running what is his own country within a country. He maintains a police force and assures sure the workers do not escape. His guards are ruthless, beating workers who work slowly. Food is minimal, housing are shacks, and there is no medical care to those who are injured or get sick. Enter Father Christopher Hartley, a protégé of Mother Teresa, who attempts to organize the workers so they can be treated more humanely. By doing so, Father Hartley’s life is threatened. Although his life is in mortal danger, he fearlessly plows ahead.
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Why Stream This Film?
- Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 74%
- Metacritic Score: 73
Accolades
- SXSW Film Festival: Winner, Emerging Visions Award
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: Winner, Best Director (Bill Haney)
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“The stories in THE PRICE of SUGAR are told with urgency, passion and artistry. They invite us, with warmth and compassion, to look.
THE PRICE of SUGAR is narrated in calm, gravelly tones by Paul Newman. Like most documentary polemics, it simplifies the issues it confronts and selects facts that bolster its black-and-white, heroes-and-villains view of raw economic power.
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