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Carmo do Rio Verde, Brazil, is a village that depends on sugar cane exploitation. The company that processes the sugar cane into alcohol owns the fields or rents them and employs 2000 workers, of which 1200 are seasonal workers hired by “El Gato”, “The Cat”. Thanks to his promises – a nice salary and a fine shelter – he gets a 4% cut out of everyone’s salary… The work starts - and exploitation with it. Amidst sweat and ashes, the film poetically reveals the human price of Brazil’s fortune, its “clean” fuel…
Jeremy Hamers (Verviers, 1978) has a BA in filmmaking and is a teaching assistant in the cinema and documentary video service at the University of Liège. With cameraman Laurent Van Eijs, he recently founded the Trikolon Productions company. He received the Kieslowski prize for Best Short Film Scenario for his short Outside(2003). A verdade do Gato (The Cat's Cut) is his first professional documentary film.
"Working 11-hour shifts, 1200 Brazilian seasonal workers harvest sugar cane for making organic fuel. Living twelve to a room, far from their families, their plight is unmasked modern slavery. Tiao, a young father, writes his wife short letters about his situation; the letters are accompanied by ravishing never-seen shots of sugar cane ablaze before harvesting, smoke filling the air and clinging to the workers' faces and lungs. But all that doesn't matter as long as the fuel meets ecological standards..."
Jeremy Hamers
Edizione 2007
PANORAMA - AMBIENT/AZIONI
DOCUMENTARY
Belgium , 2006, 52'
REGIA/DIRECTOR
Jeremy Hamers
TAGS:
Food, Agricolture, Farming
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