Although she was not a member of the 11-person team that made The Fair Trade, Bette Farrer — our director’s mom — was a silent partner in the making of the movie. Her prayers and her servanthood were instrumental in everything that happened on the film.
Bette Farrer passed away Friday, July 4, at 8:22 p.m., in Texas. She will be missed dearly.
Just as The Fair Trade was a celebration of life even in the wake of Matthew’s death, we will keep working towards the next story to tell, celebrating Bette’s life through the gifts of storytelling and service that she left us.
If you remember the key players from the movie (The Fair Trade), Steven is wonderfully funny, but also heartfelt and passionate about the reasons that they started their fair trade business. A graduate of Azusa Pacific University’s Physics department, Steve was profiled in this wonderful little clip from APU.
Jordan McMahon went to Liberia and filmed a wonderful piece for Anti-Body on their new “Coconut Campaign” for starting a cooperative in Liberia. Watch as Tamara Johnston McMahon (from The Fair Trade movie) describes what is happening, and how we can help out in making this Fair Trade initiative a reality.
The Fair Trade was screened this past Saturday night at Ten Thousand Villages Pasadena. Tamara says over 50 people came out to celebrate World Fair Trade Day and watch the movie. Fundraising continues for the new Liberia Coconut Oil Co-op that Anti-Body is working to start.
Thanks to everyone who came out for this wonderful event, and thanks to Ten Thousand Villages Pasadena for hosting an awesome evening!
Lauren Miller talked with us at length about the movie industry, life, and her friendship with Tamara while we were filming The Fair Trade movie. Here’s a fun little story that Lauren told us about the first time she met Tom Hanks.
It happened a few weeks ago, but we just got the pictures from a beautiful trip to Ashland, Oregon, to participate in the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Director Lauralee Farrer and producer Tamara Johnston McMahon spent three days talking with festival-goers about The Fair Trade movie.
More pictures after the jump; and remember, click on the pictures and you will get to Flickr, where the larger versions live…
Beth has a lovely review of The Fair Trade up on her blog at Bambootique:
“I appreciated the raw emotion portrayed in this documentary. Even though it is a retelling of events from a few years ago, the sense of profound grief leading to hope comes through quite compellingly.”
Thanks, Beth! She is excited about Anti-Body’s Liberia Co-Op effort, and Bambootique is actually donating 20% of their skincare product sales to Anti-Body’s Liberia Co-Op fund. Thank you!
Loren A. Roberts runs this blog to support the continued distribution of The Fair Trade movie, directed by Lauralee Farrer. His site can be found here. He will discuss aspects of the film's production, as well as issues raised by the movie, including fair trade, depression, hope, small businesses, and Tamara's start-up (with Steve & Shelby), Anti-Body.
Beth has a lovely 
