THE PRICE OF SUGAR
- Time: Monday 10 March 6.30pm
- Venue: Chauvel Cinema
- Director: Bill Haney Year: 2006
- Country: USA Duration: 90mins
- Genre: Documentary Language: English
Just a few miles inland from the tourist filled beaches of the Dominican Republic, hidden from view, thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed guard harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchens. They work gruelling 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 organises some of this hemisphere’s poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. The Vicini family, who own some of the sugar plantations on which the film was shot, have filed a lawsuit against the filmmakers in an attempt to block the film’s release. The Price of Sugar raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced.
Screening with…
MY FATHER MY MASTER
Although 65 year-old Master Virgilio belongs to one of the most traditional lineages of Capoeira Angola and has led a weekly practice for almost 50 years, foreign interest in Capoeira has taken most of his students abroad and he is losing the drive to continue.
His adoptive son Master Roxinho crosses the oceans to Australia and fights for the dignity of his father and their shared practice: Capoeira Angola.
- Director: Paulo Alberton Year: 2007
- Country: Australia Duration: 7mins
- Genre: Documentary Trailer Language: Portuguese w/ Eng subtitles
