Blood, Sweat and Sugar (2025)
Sugar is sweet, seductive, addictive - but built on human suffering. This feature-length reveals how an enticing luxury became the engine of a global system powered by slavery, exploitation and environmental destruction, a legacy still shaping the world today. From the 19th-century slave plantations to modern refineries in the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Reunion, India, South Africa and Europe, the series traces how sugar fuelled colonial empires, drove some of the worst aspects of international trade and commerce, and left deep social and ecological scars that are still present in labour abuses and exhausted landscapes today.
Director: Mathilde Damoisel
| Directing | Mathilde Damoisel | Director |
| Editing | Barbara Bascou | Editor |
| Sound | Anis Benhallak | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Ed Kashi | Drone Cinematographer |
| Sound | Ed Kashi | Sound |
| Production | César Monnet | Researcher |
| Art | Thomas Fage | Graphic Designer |
| Art | Stéphane Laplatte | Graphic Designer |
| Editing | Olivier Cohen | Color Grading |
| Sound | Philippe Charriot | Sound Editor |
| Production | Frédéric Régent | Researcher |
| Production | Karina Si Ahmed | Producer |
| Production | Valérie Delpierre | Producer |
| Production | BRUNO CABRAL | Producer |
