Documentary filmmakers are at the forefront of numerous civil rights struggles. A good documentary can make a difference, but also can cause indie filmmaker to be at risk of being sued by powerful corporation. BANANAS!* Director Fredrik Gertten was filed a defamation suit by Dole Food Co. Inc
BANANAS!* chronicles contextualized within the global politics of food and First vs. Third world dynamics. Directed by Fredrik Gertten, Sweden’s pre-eminent documentarian and investigative journalist, BANANAS!* focuses on a slippery fact trail and a landmark and highly controversial legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation and its alleged usage of a deadly banned pesticide and its probable link to generations of sterilized workers.
Dole Food Co. Inc. on Wednesday filed a defamation suit against the Swedish filmmaker. In the suit Dole alleges that the Fredrik Gertten’s Bananas! documentary contain false statements about Dole and its use of the DBCP pesticide.
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