Bananas!*

• Byron Rosales Romero
• Juan J. Dominguez
• Duane Miller
• Rick McKnight
• David Delorenzo
• Mercedes Del Carmen Romero

! Bananas * is a documentary made ​​by Swedish filmmaker Frederik Gertten from the 2009 issue of documentation is the dispute between the company Dole Food Company and plantation workers from Nicaragua (case: " Tellez v. Dole "). Concerning the use of the pesticide DBCP and its damaging effect on the fertility of workers.

In 2009, the company Dole tried * to prevent! The performance of the documentary Bananas. After the screening of the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2009, the company Dole sued the Swedish filmmaker Gertten on July 8 for libel. On 15 October 2009, the lawsuit was dropped again after the film was removed from the competition of the festival. End of 2010, a court in Los Angeles ruled in favor of the film crew and thus approved the release of the film in the United States.

In the film, is accused of the company to have the toxic and the banned pesticide DBCP used illegally on their plantations. Environmentalists from Greenpeace alleged who buy products from the company, ledge aid for censorship of critical media. Just as the documentation, even the authors of the Black Book throw brand-name companies to the Group " exploitation of plantation workers, use of hazardous plant toxins and child labor " before.

Gertten * has turned! 2011 on the dispute the Big Boys Gone Bananas film.