London Fairtrade Campaign Film Festival

During London Sustainability Weeks the London Fairtrade Campaign will screen a variety of films that show how unfair trade practices affect the lives of producers and growers across the developing world. At each screening a discussion panel will consider the importance and the impact of Fairtrade.

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Timetable

Date	Film	Speakers	Cinema	Cost
Sunday 27 May 12 noon	Black Gold	Nick & Marc Francis, Filmmakers; Sandy Balfour, Divine Chocolate	Renoir, WC1	£9.00/£6.50 concessions
Sunday 3 June	Pura Vida and The Luckiest Nut In The World	Camden Green Fair, Regent’s Park, Cumberland and Gloucester Gates	Camden Green Fair
Monday 4 June 8.00pm	Blood Diamond	Harriet Lamb, Fairtrade Foundation; Greg Valerio, Cred Jewellery; Sonya Maldar - Policy Analyst, CAFOD	Prince Charles, WC2	£1.00
Saturday 9 June 10.00am	The Luckiest Nut In The World and Dubble Take	Bean to bar cocoa workshop for young people (age 11+)	Renoir, WC1	£3.50
Saturday 16 June 2:15pm	Black Gold and Bonita - Ugly Bananas	Nick Francis, Filmmaker; Sophi Tranchell, Divine Chocolate; Barbara Crowther, Fairtrade Foundation	Rio, E8	£6.00/£4.00 conc
Wednesday 27 June 6:30pm	Black Gold	Nick & Marc Francis, Filmmakers	Prince Charles, WC2	£3.50 Members £4.50 Non-Members

The Films

	Black Gold Coffee is the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil - but the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.
Sunday 27 May	Renoir Brunswick Centre, WC1 08708 506 927 Speakers: Nick & Marc Francis, Filmmakers; Sandy Balfour, Divine Chocolate Time: 12 noon Cost: £6.00
Saturday 16 June With Bonita - Ugly Bananas	Rio Cinema 107 Kingsland High Street, E8 020 7241 9410 Speakers: Nick Francis, Filmmaker; Sophi Tranchell, Divine Chocolate; Barbara Crowther, Fairtrade Foundation Time: 2.15pm Cost: £6.00/£4.00 conc
Wednesday 27 June	Prince Charles Cinema 7 Leicester Place, WC2 0870 811 2559 Speakers: Nick & Marc Francis, Filmmakers Time: 6:30pm Cost: £3.50 Members £4.50 Non-Members
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Bonita - Ugly Bananas Although Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas, the workers have the lowest pay and the worst conditions in the whole of Latin America. Artist Jan Nimmo meets workers who decide to organise and strike.
Saturday 16 June With Black Gold	Rio Cinema 107 Kingsland High Street, E8 020 7241 9410 Speakers: Nick Francis, Filmmaker; Sophi Tranchell, Divine Chocolate; Barbara Crowther, Fairtrade Foundation Time: 2.15pm Cost: £6.00/£4.00 conc
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	Blood Diamond Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman.
Monday 4 June	Prince Charles Cinema 7 Leicester Place, WC2 0870 811 2559 Speakers: Harriet Lamb, Fairtrade Foundation; Greg Valerio, Cred Jewellery; Sonya Maldar - Policy Analyst, CAFOD Time: 8.00pm Cost: £1.00
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The Luckiest Nut In The World Age 11+. The film follows an animated American peanut, who sings about the difficulties faced by nuts from developing countries.
Saturday 9 June With Dubble Take	Renoir Brunswick Centre, WC1 08708 506 927 Speakers: Bean to bar cocoa workshop for young people (age 11+) Time: 10.00am Cost: £3.50
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	Dubble Take Age 11+. Dubble Take will take you on an amazing global journey through the chocolate chain, from bean to bar, exploring the people and the issues behind the nation's favourite treat and discovering the difference that Fairtrade makes.
Saturday 9 June with The Luckiest Nut in the World	Renoir Brunswick Centre, WC1 08708 506 927 Speakers: Bean to bar cocoa workshop for young people (age 11+) Time: 10.00am Cost: £3.50
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Pura Vida

Imagine Costa Rica. A green paradise, diverse, dense forests and fertile lowlands full of exotic plants and animals, rivers and coastal waters teeming with life, skies alive with more bird species than all of Europe. Pura Vida!

Costa Rica: The Switzerland of Central America, politically stable, a world away from the poverty, oppression, violence and environmental destruction that have been the hallmarks of its neighbours in Central America…but away from the eco-tourism trail life is far from idyllic.

This film takes a journey to the banana and pineapple plantations of Costa Rica to reveal the devastating effect the chemical cocktail used to grow the fruit is having on workers, the neighbouring communities and the environment – and just so we can buy cheap fruit at our local supermarket.

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