| Bitter Seeds (88 min) India/USA |
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Director/Producer: Micha X. Peled
Description:
Every 30 minutes a farmer in India kills himself in despair because he can no longer provide for his family. Will Ramkrishna be next? A cotton farmer at the epicenter of the suicide crisis region, he is struggling to keep his land. Manjusha, the neighbors' daughter, is determined to overcome village traditions and become a journalist. Ramkrishna's plight is her first assignment. Bitter Seeds raises critical questions about the human cost of genetically modified agriculture within a gripping character-based narrative. This is the final film in the Globalization Trilogy, following the award-winning Store Wars and China Blue.
Biography:
Micha Peled was born and raised in Israel and is one of the few people ever to immigrate to the US by hitchhiking. His checkered career includes stints as an importer of hammocks and sheepskin jackets, a prison guard, a freelance journalist, a director of the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and the executive director of Media Alliance. Peled's first documentary, Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin? examined the relations between Jews and Germans 50 years after the Holocaust through his personal family story. His next film, Inside God's Bunker, followed a group of extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank. You, Me, Jerusalem was the first Israeli-Palestinian co-directed film, which Peled also produced. It followed an ambulance team comprised of both Israelis and Arabs, which responded to emergencies in both sides of the capital. An ITVS-funded film Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town, follows one southern town's struggle to decide whether to allow Wal-Mart to build a megastore there. The film won a number of awards, including Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the CINE Golden Eagle.
Contact Information:
Bullfrog Films
e: mark@bullfrogfilms.com
w: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bitter.html
