The story of windmills and large-scale sugar cane production in Antigua Island. England managed to colonize the islands in 1632. The workforce was based on African slaves who, in spite of themselves, made it the flagship of the Caribbean.
Direction
Pellizzieri lets the windmills speak before revealing their true cost.
Writing
Narration that refuses to sanitize the sugar industry's brutality.
Director
Pietro Pellizzieri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Antigua's windmills are among the oldest industrial structures in the Western Hemisphere, predating American factories by centuries.
The film's release in 2020 coincided with global reexaminations of colonial monuments, yet sugar tourism remains largely unchallenged in Caribbean marketing.
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