- available formats: DVD

Black Coffee - a film by Irene Angelico

• 500 billion cups of coffee are consumed around the world each year
• Only one cent of the price of a $2 cup of coffee goes to the grower
• It costs a full day’s wages for most coffee farmers to buy a cappuccino

Canadians drink 402 cups of coffee a year... spend $600-million a year on coffee for at-home consumption (and) $2.2 to $2.5-billion on brewed coffee... (meanwhile) sales of fair trade coffee in Canada are less than 1 per cent of the total coffee consumed...”
Stephanie Nolen, GLOBE & MAIL

Black Coffee is a remarkable three part documentary that chronicles coffee’s origins in Ethiopia and its triumphant spread over five continents, sparking revolution, controversy, creativity, business and slavery all along the way.

Special Features: Dolby 5.1 or Stereo



 

2005, Canada, 174 minutes (English)