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- available formats: DVD
DVD Features:
• 16:9 (1.78:1)
• English subtitles
BLACK GOLD - a film by Nick and Marc Francis
Grand Jury Prize Nominee - Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection - Hot Docs Film Festival
Official Selection - New York Human Rights Watch International Film
Festival
Official Selection - Melbourne International Film Festival
"Wake up and smell the coffee with this probe into the
global grind behind your indulgent latte… as bracing as a double
espresso"
- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Visually ravishing!"
- Robert Koehler, VARIETY
"Illuminates the stark realities of the starving Ethiopian
coffee farmer and the broken global trade system they're at the mercy
of"
- Jessica Letkemann, PREMIERE
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While glossy multinational coffee companies dominate our shopping malls and supermarkets, coffee farmers on the other side of the world are being paid so little that many have been forced to abandon their farms. In an attempt to save 75 000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy, Tadesse Meskela searches for buyers willing to pay a fair price - and inadvertently begins to unravel a tangled web of greed and double-dealing that infiltrates the international trading system at every level, right on through to the World Trade Organisation. |
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2006, United Kingdom, 82 mins
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