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AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST 800-344-8070 www.secondharvest.org The nation's largest food bank is distributing grocery products to shelters and feeding stations. Every dollar raised brings 15 meals to the table. The group is also accepting large-scale donations of food and goods like bottled water, peanut butter, disinfectants and diapers...
...says Anderson herself, whose voice, analytical and wry, runs through the book, was having doubts about observational documentaries before her death: "The whole moral thing about 1990 being a bad year for the Ganiga, but a good year for us," as Connolly puts it. Readers of Making 'Black Harvest' might harbor a similar thought: that it was out of Connolly's own great loss that such a compelling book was born...
...followed, charting the struggle of Mick Leahy's mixed-race son Joe to be both a traditional bigman and a modern businessman running a lucrative coffee plantation on Ganiga land. The cash economy was seeping into their remote world, and the Ganiga longed for Joe's wealth. Black Harvest revisited the Ganiga five years later, on the eve of the long-awaited first harvest of coffee from a joint venture with Leahy that the tribe hoped would make them rich too. When harvesting was interrupted by an outbreak of tribal warfare, and international coffee prices plummeted, Connolly and Anderson were...
...Sixty hours of footage were distilled into the 90 minutes of Black Harvest, and Connolly's reflective, droll prose further illuminates an extraordinary year. Characters from the documentary - like gentle clan leader Popina Mai, whose hopes would be broken before the year was out - come more fully to life in Connolly's lively retelling, as do the Highlands, steeped in old ways and oratory, yet riven by fighting. The book also does much to answer the question that teased the film's audience: How did two white foreigners, along with their two-year-old daughter, manage among people...
...accuracy of your capturing of spontaneous human relationships." Remaining neutral in a world where clan allegiances are paramount made for some of the hardest work of all. Connolly is frank in his assessment of his and Anderson's ability to remain objective as tribal frictions intensified and the harvest's prospects faltered. He confesses the horror the pair privately felt when they heard that the international coffee price looked set to rise - it didn't - and spoil their film's premise. "Robin and I both felt really bad about that for years," he says...