Foreign Pickers (film)

The film offers an insight into the culture and economics of ‘going picking’, bringing together former hop-pickers ‘who went down to Kent’ from east London and today’s pickers who come there and are both key to British agricultural success. They share the experience of being so-called foreigners in the Kent countryside; east Londoners and current ‘foreigners’, often EU citizens from eastern Europe, who come to Kent as seasonal agricultural workers.

Concept: Kathrin Böhm

Editor: Sue Giovanni

Commissioned by Delfina Foundation as part of the Politics of Food Programme.

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