1. What is the video all about? Provide brief summary.

The Price of Sugar film is about the exploitation of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican
Republic involved with production of sugar. It is also about the efforts of
Father Christopher Hartley, a Spanish priest, to ameliorate the Haitian immigrants
situation.
The film narrated by actor Paul Newman and this film shows the poor working conditions
in the sugar cane plantations, and political control exerted by the Vicini family to stifle
efforts to change the situation.
While the documentary highlights the efforts of Father Christopher Hartley to bring
medicine, education, and human rights to Haitian workers, it also shows the widespread
resentment of his actions held by Dominican people.

2. Does this film teach you lessons? What are these lessons?
Yes. Like most documentary films, the The Price of Sugar simplifies the issues it
confronts and selects facts that bolster its black-and-white, heroes-and-villains view of
raw economic power. This documentary also offers yet another example of how a lot of
what we consume is produced at somebody else's expense. In this case, it's sugar.

3. How can you relate yourself to those who are in the video?
We are all striving so hard to survive in this cruel world. In this film, the workers find
themselves confined to the bateyes and were forced to perform the backbreaking and
dangerous labor of cutting cane, while living in unspeakable squalor. They are fully
exploited as labourers, and live under appalling conditions, with little freedom of
movement because of their ‘non’ status since their legal papers were stripped off from
them. They were caged and was living a hard life.

4. If you are in their shoes, what would you do? If you are present or near the situation,
what do you think you can do as a person?
If I were in their shoes, I would just probably do my best to survive. But if my rights are to
be taken away from me just like what happened in the movie, I’d definitely raise my
voice and fight not just for my rights but also for the rights of everyone else.
If I was present or near the situation, the first thing that I would definitely do is to be their
voice. I would work hard to bring social justice to them and change the conditions under
which these Haitians live and labour.