The Fair Trade Movie Blog

Producer Tamara Johnston McMahon and Associate Producer Rayne Roberts traveled up to BendFilm Festival this past weekend, and joined cinematographer Denise Klitsie to represent The Fair Trade movie at the festival in Bend, Oregon. We got pictures! One set today, and another set tomorrow.

Tamara said the movie was a smashing success:

It’s good to be back, but Rayne and I had a fun time and especially enjoyed the snow and cold weather! Everyone was extremely hospitable. The time was well spent and the screening went very well with a packed audience (not bad for 10 a.m. on a cold Saturday!). There was a standing ovation and a Q&A following the screening. Our very own Denise Klitsie and her friend Luanne were in attendance, as were Tom and Jane of Ashland Independent Film Festival and Laura Purkey (Matthew Diederich’s mom).

We want to thank everyone who came out to see the screening, and hope your lives were touched by it.

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BendFilm festival begins tonight. The Fair Trade movie screens on Saturday morning, and Tamara, Rayne, and Denise will be there to support the film, as well as our wonderful friend Jamie from FilmBaby!

Got a note from Martin at Souled Out U.K., and he was thrilled at the response to the screenings of The Fair Trade Movie at Encounter 2008:

“It was a great option for us to add screenings of The Fair Trade to our programme at the convention center in Aberdeen. Thank you so so much for allowing us to show the film. You really blessed us.”

Martin J. Clarke
Encounter 2008

Thanks, Martin, and thanks to all who checked it out in Aberdeen. Remember, if you want to support our efforts to keep making films like this, run over to the website, or FilmBaby, or any online retailer that stocks the movie!

Thanks to these wonderful folks for spreading the word about The Fair Trade, on blogs and websites and such:

• Ten Thousand Villages of Austin: They have been watching and commenting on the screenings at other 10k Villages stores.
• The Pyrmont Community recommends The Fair Trade movie in their list of ways to find out more about Fair Trade and support the movement.

We appreciate the mention and links!

Check it out: Souled Out U.K. is showing The Fair Trade movie all afternoon today!

Wow. It’s exciting to finally see The Fair Trade movie getting stocked on shelves, at least in the virtual sense. We’ve seen it at Tower, Barnes and Noble, DVD Empire, even Circuit City and Best Buy! If you haven’t purchased a copy of the movie yet, now is the time. And, if you liked the movie, make sure to go back and add a review to one (or more) of these sites — that’s how others will know that you loved it!

Ship date looks to be November 18, 2008 for these new retail channels. A shout-out and thanks to FilmBaby and Ryko Distribution for making this happen!

The Fair Trade movie screened (every hour on the hour!) at the Fair Trade L.A. Festival 2008 this past weekend. Tamara was there representing The Fair Trade as well as Anti-Body, and she said the response was great:

“No one stayed for the whole running time, but the festival was not conducive to watching movies for an hour. I could tell people were intently interested”

Thanks to Fair Trade L.A. for hosting us, and thanks to everyone who stopped by. And remember, if you want to buy the movie, go to FilmBaby or Fuller Bookstore!

The Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival is happening this weekend, and director Lauralee Farrer is in Idaho to speak at the screening of The Fair Trade movie.

Articles about the event can be found here and here. Thanks to all of those in attendance!

We’ll post a wrap-up as soon as the event is finished.

Lauralee Farrer, director and producer of The Fair Trade movie, is doing some radio interviews this week in support of the Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival (The Fair Trade is an official selection).

On Wednesday morning, September 17, she sits down with Lenny Joseph of KECH (103.5) in Sun Valley. Afterwards, she will head over to KYZK (107.5) for an interview with deejay Bob.

Anti-Body (the company that Tamara Johnston started with her twin sister Shelby and Shelby’s husband Steve  in The Fair Trade movie) has a new video up, and it’s about the cool people that are working together to make fair trade skin care products.

On YouTube.

Or here: