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Date: 11 Jun 2006 07:02:38
From: Erwin Chuk
Subject: "Black Gold" Movie @ Lincoln Center (THIS WEEKEND!)
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Hi all,
The movie "Black Gold" is being presented this weekend as part of the
2006 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Walter Reade
Theater (Lincoln Center in New York City). I attended the screening
last night, which was followed by a Q & A with directors Nick Francis
and Marc Francis along with Tadesse Meskela (General Manager, Oromo
Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union, Ethiopia). There is a showing today
(Sunday) at 4pm and tomorrow (Monday) at 2pm. FYI, the showing last
night was sold out!
"Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and
supermarkets and dominate an industry worth over $80 billion, making
coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But
while we continue to buy our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to
coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon
their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in
Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is on a one-man
mission to save his coffee cooperative's 75,000 struggling farmers
from bankruptcy. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London
and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading
system come into focus. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
2006. Presented in association with the New York African Film
Festival."
Link to the Film Society of Lincoln Center listing:
http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/hrw06/program.html
Movie link:
http://blackgoldmovie.com
Erwin
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Date: 13 Jun 2006 15:46:56
From: jason
Subject: Re: "Black Gold" Movie @ Lincoln Center (THIS WEEKEND!)
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Great movie - saw it in Portland not long ago and highly recommend it
to anybody involved in the coffee business. It truly shows you how
most cofffee is sold throughout the world and the problems facing the
local communities and producers.
jason
Erwin Chuk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The movie "Black Gold" is being presented this weekend as part of the
> 2006 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Walter Reade
> Theater (Lincoln Center in New York City). I attended the screening
> last night, which was followed by a Q & A with directors Nick Francis
> and Marc Francis along with Tadesse Meskela (General Manager, Oromo
> Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union, Ethiopia). There is a showing today
> (Sunday) at 4pm and tomorrow (Monday) at 2pm. FYI, the showing last
> night was sold out!
>
> "Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and
> supermarkets and dominate an industry worth over $80 billion, making
> coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But
> while we continue to buy our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to
> coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon
> their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in
> Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is on a one-man
> mission to save his coffee cooperative's 75,000 struggling farmers
> from bankruptcy. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London
> and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading
> system come into focus. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
> 2006. Presented in association with the New York African Film
> Festival."
>
> Link to the Film Society of Lincoln Center listing:
> http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/hrw06/program.html
>
> Movie link:
> http://blackgoldmovie.com
>
> Erwin
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Date: 13 Jun 2006 23:56:31
From: TJ
Subject: Re: "Black Gold" Movie @ Lincoln Center (THIS WEEKEND!)
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I got a chance to see the premiere at Sundance, and it was great!
Everyone should go see it!
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