A verdade do Gato . The Cat’s Cut

Verzio FF Submission Burning sugar cane fields, exploited seasonal workers and 'El Gato' (‘The Cat’). He hires the men who harvest sugar cane in the Brazilian village of Carmo do Rio Verde. One single company owns and leases the sugar cane fields and produces ethanol. 1,200 of the 2,000 wo...

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Other Authors: Hamers, Jeremy
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:Portuguese
Published: Trikolon Productions 2006
Belgium
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e0574658-34ab-463f-b50a-03f7772ee6a4
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description Verzio FF Submission Burning sugar cane fields, exploited seasonal workers and 'El Gato' (‘The Cat’). He hires the men who harvest sugar cane in the Brazilian village of Carmo do Rio Verde. One single company owns and leases the sugar cane fields and produces ethanol. 1,200 of the 2,000 workers are seasonal. They have to work in humiliating conditions, harvesting the burnt fields in order to produce bioethanol. El Gato promises them good wages and decent accommodation, for which he takes off 4 percent of their pay. The seasonal worker Sebãstiao Soares, is just one of the many workers who come from faraway places in Brazil for the harvest, and becomes a victim of the machinery. The film unveils the human price of Brazil’s cane industry.
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Belgium
spellingShingle A verdade do Gato . The Cat’s Cut
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title A verdade do Gato . The Cat’s Cut
topic [Documentary film]
url http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e0574658-34ab-463f-b50a-03f7772ee6a4