The Fair Trade Movie Blog http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com Updates and musings on the movie, the participants, and the world of The Fair Trade movie Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:50:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en BendFilm starts tonight http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/bendfilm-starts-tonight/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/bendfilm-starts-tonight/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:50:29 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/bendfilm-starts-tonight/ 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!

]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/bendfilm-starts-tonight/feed/ Souled Out U.K. recap http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/souled-out-uk-recap/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/souled-out-uk-recap/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:46:55 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/souled-out-uk-recap/ 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!

]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/10/souled-out-uk-recap/feed/ Thanks to those promoting The Fair Trade movie online… http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/thanks-to-those-promoting-the-fair-trade-movie-online/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/thanks-to-those-promoting-the-fair-trade-movie-online/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:19 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/thanks-to-those-promoting-the-fair-trade-movie-online/ 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!

]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/thanks-to-those-promoting-the-fair-trade-movie-online/feed/ Souled Out happening right now… http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/souled-out-happening-right-now/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/souled-out-happening-right-now/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:01:47 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/souled-out-happening-right-now/ Check it out: Souled Out U.K. is showing The Fair Trade movie all afternoon today!

]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/souled-out-happening-right-now/feed/ The Fair Trade movie making its way into retailers… http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/the-fair-trade-movie-making-its-way-into-retailers/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/the-fair-trade-movie-making-its-way-into-retailers/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:20:05 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/the-fair-trade-movie-making-its-way-into-retailers/ 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!

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]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/10/05/the-fair-trade-movie-making-its-way-into-retailers/feed/ Fair Trade L.A. Festival 2008 http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/30/fair-trade-la-festival-2008/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/30/fair-trade-la-festival-2008/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:41:18 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/30/fair-trade-la-festival-2008/ FTLA_Postcard-300x204The 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!

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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.

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]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/21/this-weekend-at-the-sun-valley-spiritual-film-festival/feed/ Director Lauralee Farrer talks about The Fair Trade http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/17/director-lauralee-farrer-talks-about-the-fair-trade/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/17/director-lauralee-farrer-talks-about-the-fair-trade/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:28:43 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/17/director-lauralee-farrer-talks-about-the-fair-trade/ 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.

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]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/17/director-lauralee-farrer-talks-about-the-fair-trade/feed/ L.A. Train tragedy strikes close to home http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/13/la-train-tragedy-strikes-close-to-home/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/13/la-train-tragedy-strikes-close-to-home/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:40:25 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/13/la-train-tragedy-strikes-close-to-home/ RachealWe join with the Anti-Body team in prayerful support of Anti-Body’s intern, Racheal. She was in the Chatsworth Metrolink train accident yesterday and is in critical condition. She’s in the middle of brain surgery and has sustained major head trauma, as well as other injuries.

Racheal has interned with Anti-Body one day a week because she wants to develop her own line of skincare products. She graduated from the University of Zambia, and is now a student at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. She and a fellow student in Zambia won a competition with their business plan to study in the US with a goal to study hard and gain as much experience as possible before returning to Zambia.

Please join us with your thoughts and prayers as the doctors work to nurse Racheal back.

]]> http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/13/la-train-tragedy-strikes-close-to-home/feed/ New Anti-Body video online http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/11/new-anti-body-video-online/ http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/11/new-anti-body-video-online/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:48:16 +0000 Loren http://blog.thefairtrademovie.com/2008/09/11/new-anti-body-video-online/ 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:

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