This documentary explores the region of Tuscany as witnessed by two individuals: a peasant (Mezzadro) still living under the medieval sharecropping system, and a priest ministering to women working as sex slaves. The film offers a re-reading of this much-loved region, a landscape shaped and continually transformed by co-existing extremes of human labor, cultivation and exploitation. This project shows history as a living continuum in which care of the land and care for each other are interwoven.

A 45-minute documentary film currently in post-production.

Director, Producer: Esther Podemski
Writers: Esther Podemski, Andrea Carlisle
Associate Producer, Assistant Editor: Kate Barkume
Cinematography: Federico Marsicano; John Campbell
Co-Editors: Dan Lawren; Greg Loser

Learn more about the personnel for The Peasant and the Priest.

Fiscal Sponsors

New York Foundation For the Arts
http://www.nyfa.org
To donate:

• Make your check payable to our fiscal sponsor, the New York Foundation for the Arts (http://www.nyfa.org)
• Write The Peasant and the Priest in the Memo/Notes section of your check.
• Mail to: Esther Podemski, 128 St. Marks Avenue, #2, Brooklyn, New York 11217.

To support completion of The Peasant and the Priest, join our other donors.

Why Donate?

• Support the mission of Oreste Benzi’s organization to bring to light the worldwide problem of human trafficking.
• Help support the agricultural integrity of the Tuscan landscape.

All contributions are tax deductible. All donors will be listed in the film credits. Contributions will directly help to finish the film (post-production) and help launch distribution.