Black Gold at Kino Cinema
Posted by Cork Greenmap on June 18th, 2007.BLACK GOLD, Wake Up And Smell The Coffee! - screening once only at Kino Cinema, June 21st.
In association with Oxfam Ireland and Kinsale Fairtrade Committee, Kino Cinema presents a once-off screening of BLACK GOLD on Thursday June 21st at 6.30pm in Kino Cinema.
Kino presents the Irish premiere of a powerful new documentary - BLACK GOLD. Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for 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 one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.Against the backdrop of Tadesse’s journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world’s coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.
This special event screening takes place on Thursday 21st June at 6:30pm followed by an Q&A session with one of the film’s producer, Oistein Thorsen.
“Scathing, vivid and galavanizing” writes Time Out, while the Daily Telegraph says “BLACK GOLD has extraordinary power”.
Tickets are limited for BLACK GOLD and are now available, please call Kino at 021 4271571 to reserve, or email us at kinocinema@indigo.ie.
Wake up and smell the coffee!
http://www.blackgoldmovie.com