Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish film-makers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.
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"In 2009, Swedish film director Fredrik Gertten made a film called Bananas!*, which centered around the depressing lives of the Nicaraguan plantation workers of the popular American company Dole. The work quickly transcended from depressing portrait to involving legal drama as Dole was found to be using an illegal pesticide on their crops of bananas, causing them to be tainted and workers to be sterile. As corporations often thing, they thought no harm, no foul, what the consumers don't know will not hurt them. That all shifted when the film entered eligibility for the L.A. Film Festival. ..."
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Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish film-makers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.