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About Me

THE TIME HAS COME... LET THE ROASTING BEGIN! BLACK GOLD will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on June 8th 2007.
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www.blackgoldmovie.com
As westerners revel in designer lattes, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice.
In their eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry, filmmaking brothers Nick and Marc Francis trace one man's fight for fair trade.

My Interests

Coffee, truth, trade, justice, and telling stories about the disenfranchised - the people whose voices are almost never heard....

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Andreas Kapsalis
- Black Gold Film Score Composer

Featured tracks by:
Joe Henson & Kunja Chatterton
Matthew Herbert (aka RadioBoy)
Matt Coldrick (Ethiopian music sample recordings)

Movies:

www.blackgoldmovie.com

Heroes:

Tadesse Meskela
- the main character in Black Gold who leaves Ethiopia with his farmers' coffee beans and travels to London and Seattle to try and sell them directly to buyers who will pay him a better price than the low price his farmers receive at the moment. (less than 3 cents for a $3 cup of coffee)

My Blog

Channel 4 House Rules

For information on Channel 4 's House Rules, please visit: http://www.channel4.com/house-rules.html
Posted by BLACK GOLD on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:51:00 PST

Win a year’s supply of coffee

Win a Year's supply of Fair Trade coffee! Celebrate the airing of Black Gold on More4 Tuesday 26th at 10pm and learn the real story behind your daily caffeine fix by winning a year's supply of Equal E...
Posted by BLACK GOLD on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:30:00 PST

Fair Trade, Sundance, and Starbucks Charm Offensive in Park City

Were now on our way back to London, so for the first time were able to start to reflect on the madness in a good way that was the Sundance Film Festival 2006.At the end of last November, just after ...
Posted by BLACK GOLD on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:04:00 PST