A feature-length independent documentary film about tobacco growers, farm workers and tobacco-dependent communities struggling with the decline of domestic tobacco production. The film looks at an unexpected casualty in the war against smoking-the demise of the small tobacco farmer.
Focusing on a racially and socio-economically diverse trio of life-long North Carolina farmers and their farm workers, the film examines the cultural, economic and emotional impacts flowing from decreased tobacco production.
Tobacco Money Feeds My Family premiered at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies Documentary Film and Video Happening on November 9, 2002.
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