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Tobacco Blues

Families who have been growing tobacco for generations face the consequences of a national controversy fuming in their own backyards.

Series

POV

Premiere Date

June 9, 1998

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Eren Isabel McGinnis

Producer

Eren Isabel McGinnis has produced 19 movies including P.O.V.'s Tobacco Blues, The Girl Next Door (shortlisted for an Oscar!), Beyond the Border, The Spirituals, and Dos Vatos-México. She has a degree in Cultural Anthropology from San Diego State University, and a certificate in Film and Video Theory and Production from the University College Dublin, in Ireland. McGinnis, a Fulbright scholar, spent a year of living, writing, and filmmaking in Juchitán, México. She is currently in training for the grueling El Tour de Tucson bike ride and enjoys hiking in the Sonoran desert or any place where there is a trail to the mountaintop.
Christine Fugate

Producer

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