“Sugar Babies poignantly maps how the government in the D.R. is implicated in the human trafficking and exploitation of Haitian migrants by the sugar barons.  The film also illuminates a global trend in which migrants from poor countries -- unable to emigrate to First World metropolises traverse borders -- by legal and illegal means to less poor ones.”                            -Dr. Michael Martin, Film Critic and Editor, The Black Camera

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“Sugar Babies” is a poignant, haunting film in the fine tradition of all great investigative reporting, shining a searing light on the plight of a desperately poor and disenfranchised people and those who would exploit them.”                                                                    -Ken Wells, Senior Editor, Conde Nast, Portfolio

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“If they gave an Oscar for the muckraking documentary that most riles the world's fat cats, turning them into red-faced, sputtering stuffed shirts, Amy Serrano's film about Big Sugar would surely win hands down. The exposé film Sugar Babies, which won best documentary two weeks ago at the Delray Beach Film Festival and is having its first commercial screening this week in Fort Lauderdale, has sugar barons and their allies scurrying around the globe trying to stop people from seeing it.”        -Edmund Newton, Senior Editor, The New Times

 

“I want to congratulate you on a beautiful, troubling, yet amazing film. I know you’ll continue to be a voice for the voiceless”                                                              –Dr. Pamela Franco, Professor, Xavier University 

 

"Documentaries don't get much better than this either in content or technical quality."

                -Jan Holmes, Festival Director, United Nations, Through Women's Eyes International Film Festival

 

"The film was incredible. Thank you for sharing with us. It was enlightening and provocative as well as visually

stunning!"                                           -Maurice Ruffin, Award-Winning Author, New Orleans, Louisiana
 

 

“We sit around in our own little world not knowing what is really going on in the real world. This was a real shocker and I am glad it was so well received. The audience got to see the ongoing atrocities that still exist in the world today."                             -Dr. Michael Posner, Festival Director, The Delray Beach Film Festival 

 

"I commend you for your conviction and the efforts you are making to inform more people like myself of the conditions on the sugar plantations in the DR. I thought you did a fabulous job as a filmmaker to create a coherent piece that flows well, educates, and without question, disturbs one's quietude."          

                                                                                          --H. Ross, Educator, Boulder, Colorado
 

"The subject matter is sad, it's true, but you have a really positive outlook, and the delivery (for both the film and the questions and answers session) was extremely well-executed. I particularly enjoyed the poetic cinematography. There was a sense of the heat and sun and humidity in the colors and slow moving images. All of the images of children traipsing through sugarcane will stay with me."  

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 “We  are thrilled to present this important film, however, our lasting desire is for this film to spur positive change for those laboring in the sugar industry and towards the ecological impact big sugar unleashes on our State."                      -Gregory Von Hausch, Festival Director, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

 

"It went so, so, so well! The screening was well attended. One American woman stopped by to say that she had shown The Sugar Babies to her class and that it had a transformative impact on her and her kids. The film is poignant, captivating and informative. I was worried about the length, but it is so engaging that it delivered, even to the shortest of attention spans. Very inspiring work. Well done!   Thank you!  

                                                                   -Emily Paige, Professor, Concordia University, Art Gallery

 

"Sugar Babies is, in short, brilliant. An amazing, amazing documentary, from beginning to end. It is beautifully paced and filmed, and the issues profoundly important."                     -Diane Mason, Director, HOPE Films