Dominican Republic

Human Rights in Quisqueya (United States), 2007.
A digital tapestry of divergent viewpoints on Haitians in Dominican Republic. It reflects our constant monitoring of media coverage of the plight of Haitian immigrants and Dominican-Haitians in the Dominican Republic. The main thrust of the documentary is that the treatment of Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic is overly politicized. Any solution must be human and in compliance with international laws.

My American Girls (United States), 2000.
This film chronicles the lives of immigrants from the Dominican Republic to New York City through one family with three daughters. Each daughter is traveling down a different road as their mother, Sandra, struggles to do right by each of them, as they grapple with being a bicultural family while negotiating the hurdles of their adopted city. 

The Price of Sugar (United States), 2007.
This documentary profiles the courageous Father Christopher Hartley, a Spanish priest who travels to the Dominican Republic to stop a modern-day slavery operation. Thousands of Haitian men are forced to work in inhumane conditions to harvest sugar cane for the wealthy.