Depicting the contemporary lives of several local tobacco farmers, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family makes the convincing case that one cannot truly tell the story of North Carolina without placing the history of tobacco’s rise and fall right at its center. North Carolina tobacco farmers explain tobacco’s importance to the state’s economy as they continue to plant their crops, pray for rain during prolonged droughts, and adjust to recent changes in America’s smoking culture. Filmmaker Cynthia Hill also recounts her own childhood memories of tobacco farming’s impact on Pink Hill, North Carolina, where she grew up learning to respect the vitality of tobacco farming culture. In the wake of smoking bans in major American cities, most infamously New York, Hill’s film moves the discussion from consumption to production, asking what the history of tobacco farming says about race, class, urbanization, and health issues in contemporary American society.  JJ