Today! Special Film Screening: The Price of Sugar and Q & A after with the producer
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Posted by , April 24, 2008
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Please join us today for a Special Film Screening: The Price of Sugar An Event Sponsored by The Gender/Cultural Studies Department and The Scott/Ross Center for Community Service
Date: Friday April 25th Time: 3:30 Location: L004
There will be a Question and Answer period after the film with the producer. This is a very unique and special screening, this documentary is no longer in theaters and not yet released on DVD.
Film Description: 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. 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.
For more information about the film: www.thepriceofsugar.com or contact Sujata Adamson-Mohan at adamson@simmons.edu or Carolyn Grimes at carolyn.grimes@simmons.edu
