Film: Seasons in the Valley (Adam Matalon, 2008, Chatsby Films)

I love films about relationships between men. I love films about how men think about their work. The lyrical Seasons in the Valley is both: a feature-length documentary that chronicles the journeys of highly-skilled Jamaican migrant workers (with full support of the US and Jamaican government), the plight of the New York Apple Farmers who have been employing them for decades, and the bonds that have formed between these men as the fiercely competitive, global economy for fruit squeezes the Hudson Valley apple growing businesses. This is a human film, with a background of economics, but is not directly a political film.