The Price of Sugar

Directed by: Bill Haney Released: 2022 (educational) Year of Production: 2007 Running Time: 90 min Language: English, Spanish Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Race Power and Privilege, Global Studies, Caribbean Studies                 On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at wha