videohttp://www.nfb.ca/film/chocolate_farmerRohan Fernando<iframe src="http://www.nfb.ca/film/chocolate_farmer/embed/player" width="530" height="345" ></iframe><p style="width:(( width ))px"><a href="http://www.nfb.ca/film/chocolate_farmer" target="_blank"><em>The Chocolate Farmer</em></a> by <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/rohan-fernando/" title="more films by Rohan Fernando" target="_blank">Rohan Fernando</a>, <a href="http://www.nfb.ca" target="_blank">National Film Board of Canada</a></p> http://media3.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_small/2012/Chocolate-farmer_56609_SM_1.jpgThis full-length documentary takes us to an unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cacao farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. The film captures a year in the life of the Pop family as they struggle to preserve their values in a world that is dramatically changing around them. A lament for cultures lost, The Chocolate Farmer challenges our deeply held assumptions of progress.

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