Special features: Update on the guest worker program (19 min.); Short: "More than luck" (1 min.); Trailer: "Life and debt" (2 min.); Audio commentary by director Stephanie Black [optional]; About Docurama [text feature]; Docurama trailers (9 min.).
Originally produced as an American documentary in 1990.
Cinematography, Maryse Alberti ; edited by John Mullen ; original music by Mutabaruka ; consultant, Nancy Baker ; research, Jo Applebaum, Elia Suleiman, Cathy Lewis, Jacob Berger, Jan Baracz.
Commentators, Probyn W. Aitken, Dalton Yancey, Tom Breunning, Michael Manley, Tom Downey, Bill Bradley; letters to and from workers read by Homer Heron, George Cesvette, Oliver Stephenson, Delroy Hunter, Jervis Anderson, King David, Belinda Goffe.
DVD; NTSC; Dolby Digital stereo.
In English with optional subtitles in Spanish.
Winner, 1990 Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award: Documentary--Maryse Alberti; Grand Jury Prize: Documentary--Stephanie Black.
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