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HOST A SCREENING
To schedule a community screening, or to learn more about The Peasant and the Priest,
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| UPCOMING SCREENING | |||
Southern Methodist University |
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| PAST SCREENINGS | |||
Hofstra University Illinois Wesleyan University University of Chicago Wellesley College Calandra Italian American Institue-CUNY Queens SUNY Fredonia Newfilmmakers Festival at Anthology Film Archives The International Film Festival at Mercy College The College of New Jersey University of Pennsylvania Central Connecticut State University Sarah Lawrence College MUSE Center of Photography and the Moving Image Fairfield University The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Northwest Film Center/ Portland Art Museum | |||
| WORK IN PROGRESS | |||
Murray State University |
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MISSION STATEMENT The Peasant and the Priest offers
a reinterpretation of one of the most idealized landscapes in the
world- Tuscany, where connoisseurs still go in search of the good life.
This naturally arid region was once made diverse and beautiful by
intense cultivation carried on in small lots by peasants like Sergio.
The modern, better-irrigated Tuscany is dedicated only to a single
crop: grapes for wine, produced for export by business conglomerates.
Where century-old olive trees still stand, young women from Africa and
Eastern Europe sell themselves along the public highways. The priest,
Father Oreste Benzi, intervenes in this newly globalized form of
extortion and slavery. There are more slaves today, he tells us, than
ever before in human history: 27 million. Tuscany, the goal of so many
travelers' hopes for beauty and goodness, instead offers a disturbing
spectacle of dislocation.The Peasant and the Priest
aspires to raise awareness regarding the urgency of these issues. The
film underscores the repercussions of globalization upon cherished
traditional values in a world that moves relentlessly forward. Although
human trafficking is a global epidemic that exists in all communities,
far too few are aware of its ubiquity, stretching even to the United
States. Meanwhile, diversified landscapes have been homogenized by
corporations, bringing unseen consequences for small farmers and
consumers everywhere. By organizing a screening of The Peasant and the Priest in your community, you can help contribute
to a necessary dialogue about the consequences of globalization and governmental indifference.
WHAT THE PEASANT AND THE PRIEST PROVIDES A copy of the 47-minute film on DVD with English subtitles.
A downloadable press-kit. We
are planning to produce additional DVD chapters for
educational purposes. These chapters will include previously unseen
footage consisting of interviews with principals in the film
discussing contemporary politics, globalization, agricultural shifts,
and human trafficking. Once we have finished developing this new
version, we will provide your organization with a replacement copy of
the DVD. | |||
