H2 Worker

UPC: 767685989234

Studio: New Video Group

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:null

Summary: An "H-2 worker" is a foreigner who is issued a temporary (6 month) entrance permit in order to do farm labor. This documentary explores the situation these workers find themselves both in Florida, where they do their work (and have their wages skimmed by their greedy employers, who get a government subsidy just to employ them) and in their native Jamaica, where poverty is deep and widespread. While it is attractive, the thick Jamaican accent of some of the interviewed workers is frequently difficult to understand. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Awards: Grand Jury Prize - Documentary – Sundance Film Festival

Features: Update on the guest worker program
Filmmaker audio commentary
Short film: More Than Luck
Trailer: Life and Debt

H2 Worker

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/28/2009

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 70 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish

Chapters: Disc #1 -- H2 Worker
1. Farm Worker Program Acceptance [4:18]
2. A Ton of Cane an Hour [5:55]
3. "Hereditary Urge" [2:42]
4. Not Much Sugar In the Cane [5:05]
5. From Barracks to Bus to Field [6:06]
6. American Labor Doesn't Want That Job [7:24]
7. A Matter of Simple Arithmetic [6:32]
8. My Turn to Get Cut [8:46]
9. The Profitability Is Not There [3:56]
10. The Okeelanta Strike [4:48]
11. See You Next Season [8:56]
12. Credits [2:17]

Cast and Crew: Stephanie Black  Director 

Country: USA