The Fair Trade Movie Blog

Halogen TV just did a piece on Tamara and The Fair Trade movie. Check it out. Congratulations!

The Growth and Development Project at Columbia University is screening The Fair Trade movie on Wednesday, December 2. 8:30-9:30 p.m., in Lerner 569. Here’s the link:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180263603590&ref=ts

A few more events to report:

• The Fair Trade will be screening on Monday, October 19, 2009, at Busboys and Poets at 5th and “K” Street in Washington, D.C. at 6:00 p.m. as part of their Global Exchange Fair Trade store’s celebration of Fair Trade month. If you’re in D.C., this is a great opportunity to connect with other people who value fair trade, as well as check out the movie.
• Independents Coffee Collective in Philadelphia will screen The Fair Trade movie on Monday, October 26, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., as part of their Fair Trade Film Fest celebrating fair trade month.

Congratulations to everyone on the continued presence and message of this important film; we hope it keeps inspiring people to live “a meaningful life” through their work and buying habits and relationships!

One World Film Festival in Canada starts today, October 15, 2009, and is showing The Fair Trade movie on the first night. Congratulations to the entire film team! From the press release:

World Inter-Action Mondiale (WIAM) is pleased to announce the line-up for the 20th annual One World Film Festival. The One World Film Festival will be presented over four evenings in October: 15, 23, 29 30 at the Library and Archives Canada, doors open at 5:30 p.m.

The screening of The Fair Trade has been made possible by the generosity of Ten Thousand Villages and Cocoa Camino. Thank you so much for allowing this story to continue!

The Washington D.C. Fair Trade Network just linked to us, encouraging people to watch the encouraging story of The Fair Trade movie. Thanks, D.C.!

Sorry it’s been so long since we updated last. Can you believe it? — another film festival:

The IIFF has chosen the following films for showing in this year’s festival. We apologize for our tardiness in finalizing the selections, but we’ve had some problems to overcome…and we have. These films are selected because of their excellence but also because of the way they complement other films in the festival.

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Thanks so much to everyone for submitting your films. We’re honored that you’ve chosen the IIFF to exhibit your work. We believe that we’re going to have another great festival.

Richard Schinnow
IIFF Director

Congratulations to the whole Fair Trade movie crew! July 17-19, 2009.

We heard from the organizers of the Lowell Film Festival, which happened last weekend:

We had a fabulous turnout for your film, and for the entire festival in general. It was a rousing success! We had so much fun giving out your samples of lip balm — everyone was so surprised and delighted to receive them. What a nice touch it was to the event.

I made a personal introduction to the film, and got quite moved doing so. I have been so inspired by your story, Tamara, and was so grateful that you and Lauralee chose to share it with the world.

We also found coverage of the festival (including mention of The Fair Trade movie) in the Nashua Telegraph.

Thanks for all the support!

You can now get The Fair Trade movie just about anywhere. We just found out that Blockbuster Video is now carrying it online, so you can rent it if you have a membership (good rating so far too! — please rate us if you are a member of Blockbuster).

And remember, we have a bunch of links to purchase locations on the website, as well as Filmbaby offering both physical DVDs and movie downloads.

A few weeks ago I mentioned that Anti-Body products are now being carried in most Whole Foods Market stores, especially here in the West and Southwest. Now we found out that management at the markets are using The Fair Trade movie to introduce employees to the human side of fair trade, as well as provide a backstory for Anti-Body, a locally-produced product that Whole Foods is marketing. This is a wonderful use of the movie: to make the connection between how we live and work, and how people on the other side of the planet are affected.

Congratulations!

The Fair Trade movie will be featured Down Under, during the New South Wales Fair Trade Fortnight [one of many Fortnight websites here, church venue homepage here].

We feel honored and fortunate to be a part of these larger events that get out the word about fair trade, communities, and the people around the world like Tamara and her friends in Togo who are aided by fair trade practices worldwide.