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Bananas

On behalf of 12 Nicaraguan banana workers, Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez tackles Dole Food in a groundbreaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

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March 31, 2012

Length

60 minutes

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Co-Production

Fredrik Gertten

Producer/Director

Fredrik Gertten is a filmmaker based in Malmö, Sweden who speaks fluent Spanish and worked as a journalist in Nicaragua in the 1980s and 1990s. He co-produced Milkbar (2007), Thin Ice (2006), Belfast Girls (2006), and produced/directed and both The Socialist, The Architect & the Twisted Tower and An Ordinary Family in 2005.

Margarete Jangard

Producer

Margarete Jangård has been in the media business for 20 years, having worked at SVT Drama and on commercial/informational films. She was an EAVE graduate in 2005. Some of her films as producer include: Burma VJ’s (2008; dir. Anders Östergaard; Final Image (2009; dir. Andrés Habegger); Milkbar (2006; dir. Terese Mörnvik & Ewa Einhorn); Thin Ice (2006; dir. Håkan Berthas); Belfast Girls (2006; dir. Malin Andersson); The Socialist, The Architect & the Twisted Tower (2005; dir. Fredrik Gertten); and An Ordinary Family (2005; dir. Fredrik Gertten).