Big Boys Gone Bananas!* First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company has made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film! A documentary by (and about) Fredrik Gertten. World Premiere at IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2. North American Premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2.
Frustration, fear and anger are palpable throughout Big Boys Gone Bananas!* even though Fredrik Gertten approaches the heated rhetoric with a cool head. FILMMAKER'S VIEW. By Fredrik Gertten "Big boys gone bananas!*" was a film I needed to make. Being sued by a multi-national corporate giant like Dole Foods is no PR.
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*This is the documentary that made Dole so upset in the first place. Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he tackles the Dole Food Company in a ground- breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food. One third of the production price of the average banana is used simply to cover the cost of pesticides.
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All over the world, banana plantation workers are suffering and dying from the effects of these pesticides. Juan Dominguez, a million- dollar personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, is on his biggest case ever representing over 1.
Nicaraguan banana workers claiming to be afflicted by a pesticide known as Nemagon. Dole Food and Dow Chemicals are on trial. Another banana worker is being buried in a small northern town in Nicaragua. For his whole life, Alberto Rosales used his machete to remove weeds from below the banana plants. His son says his last years were filled with pain, a body that was itching all night — and in the end his kidneys stopped working. Read the full story on.