HOST A SCREENING
To schedule a community screening, please fill out the following form detailing your organization and a time, date, and location for the screening. We will respond to your inquiry with payment details and other information. You will receive a DVD copy of the film and our promotional press-kit.
 Click here to download the .PDF inquiry form.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Peasant and the Priest offers a reinterpretation of one of the most idealized landscapes in the world—Tuscany, where connoisseurs still go in search of the good life. This naturally arid region was once made diverse and beautiful by intense cultivation carried on in small lots by peasants like Sergio. The modern, better-irrigated Tuscany is dedicated only to a single crop: grapes for wine, produced for export by business conglomerates. Where century-old olive trees still stand, young women from Africa and Eastern Europe sell themselves along the public highways. The priest, Father Oreste Benzi, intervenes in this newly globalized form of extortion and slavery. There are more slaves today, he tells us, than ever before in human history: 27 million. Tuscany, the goal of so many travelers' hopes for beauty and goodness, instead offers a disturbing spectacle of dislocation.
The Peasant and the Priest aspires to raise awareness regarding the urgency of these issues. The film underscores the repercussions of globalization upon cherished traditional values in a world that moves relentlessly forward. Although human trafficking is a global epidemic that exists in all communities, far too few are aware of its ubiquity, stretching even to the United States. Meanwhile, diversified landscapes have been homogenized by corporations, bringing unseen consequences for small farmers and consumers everywhere. By organizing a screening of The Peasant and the Priest in your community, you can help contribute to a necessary dialogue about the consequences of globalization and governmental indifference.
WHAT THE PEASANT AND THE PRIEST PROVIDES
A copy of the 47-minute film on DVD, in Italian with English subtitles.
A downloadable press-kit.
We are planning to produce additional DVD chapters for educational
purposes. These chapters will include previously unseen footage
consisting of interviews with principals in the film discussing
contemporary politics, globalization, agricultural shifts, and human
trafficking. Once we have finished developing this new version, we
will provide your organization with a replacement copy of the DVD.
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