H-2 Worker

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Title

H-2 Worker

Description

Arizona International Film Festival program film description: This controversial expose tells the story of the 10,000 Caribbean workers imported each year to cut sugar cane by hand near Florida's Lake Okeechobee. This brutal six-month task is so dangerous and conditions are so appalling, that Americans refuse to perform the work. The scandalous "H-2" guestworker visa program has existed since 1942. H-2 Worker was able to expose it because the filmmakers successfully shot clandestine footage where they had been denied permission to enter by the sugar corporations and the local police.

Format

Video (VHS)

Language

English

Type

Documentary

Identifier

FEST 1990 - 1993 - 1994 FILMS

Date Issued

1990

Moving Image Item Type Metadata

Duration

70 minutes

Producer

Stephanie Black

Director

Stephanie Black

Country

USA

Citation

“H-2 Worker,” Arizona Media Arts Center, accessed March 29, 2024, http://azmac.mesmernet.org/items/show/5375.

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