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Full Length Videos (20 minutes or more)Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification
This public television documentary takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, the USA and Canada to explore how conscious consumers and businesses can use the market to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through product labeling, with a focus on Fair Trade coffee and Forest Stewardship Council certified wood.
Runtime: 55 minutes View the trailer online.
The Fair Trade: What is Your Life Worth?
This feature documentary tells the story of Tamara Johnston who, devastated by the tragic death of her fiance, makes a bargain with God in exchange for a meaningful life. She and her twin sister Shelby join forces with brother-in-law Steven to start one of the first fair trade skincare companies—Anti-Body.
Runtime: 58 minutes. View the trailer online.
Black Gold *
Black Gold (2005) follows Tadesse Meskela on a mission to save his 75,000 struggling Ethiopian coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As he travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair pric, the more powerful sides of the international trading system begin to unfold. New York coffee traders, auction houses and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the enormity of Tadesse’s task to find a long term solution for his farmers.
Runtime: 78 minutes. View the trailer on line.
Stolen Childhoods
Stolen Childhoods is the first feature documentary on global child labor ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. It places the children's stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor. Stolen Childhoods provides an understanding of the causes of child labor, what it costs the global community, how it contributes to global insecurity and what it will take to eliminate it.
Runtime: 85 minutes. View the trailer online.
Made in LA *
Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish an important legal and moral precedent holding an American retailer liable for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured.
Runtime: 70 minutes. View the trailer online.
Birdsong and Coffee: A Wake Up Call
Birdsong and Coffee uses a series of interviews to communicate the sincere, respectful relationship that exists through Fair Trade among the parties involved in coffee production. In this film we hear from experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers, and-most importantly-from coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are inextricably linked, economically and environmentally.
Runtime: 56 minutes. Buy the film and access its companion discussion guide.
The Beloved Community *
The Beloved Community looks at a Great Lakes oil town facing a toxic legacy head-on. The nerve center of Canada’s petrochemical industry, Sarnia once enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country—but now the bill has come due, in a compromised environment and a devastating community health crisis. The city has already lost a generation of men to workplace-related cancers. Now their widows and daughters are discovering a reproductive time-bomb; because of their own exposure to a cluster of hormone-mimicking chemicals called "endocrine disruptors," the next generation may be at risk.
Runtime: 56 minutes. View a video-clip online.
End of the Rainbow *
This film provides a concise, in-depth look at the impact of global extractive industries on local populations, their economy, their traditions and their environment. It depicts in striking details the confrontation of two cultures, one indigenous the other a unique reflection of the age of globalization. The film uses a gold mine in Guinea to explore whether concessions granted to transnational corporations are in the interest of the companies, the governing elite or the local community.
Runtime: 52 minutes. View a video-clip online.
A Killer Bargain *
The Killer Bargain referred to by this hard-hitting documentary’s title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don’t reflect the actual human and environmental costs associated with their production in the developing world. Consumers remain largely unaware of the conditions under which the goods they buy are produced; this film makes those connections shockingly clear. While some retailers and manufacturers refuse to talk to the filmmakers, workers, doctors and scientists testify eloquently to the tremendous human costs of globalization.
Runtime: 57 minutes. View a video-clip online.
Made in China *
Made in China tells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous l abel "Made in China." This massive dislocation of people may well represent the largest, most rapid migration in human history. The film demonstrates how one generation of Chinese is experiencing the culture shock of an Industrial Revolution which took centuries in the West. It is inevitably both an elegy for a lost way of life and a grassroots view of what could become the most powerful economic power on earth.
Runtime: 52 minutes. View a video-clip online.
Just Coffee
Produced as part of Consumers International's Sustainable Coffee Campaign, Just Coffee (2006) takes an introductory look at the different types of certified coffees on the market and assesses the benefits for coffee producers and consumers. The film follows the certified coffee chain from Brazil to the supermarket shelves of Europe and North America. Just Coffee is a compelling introduction to coffee certification, an ideal resource for anyone interested in sustainability, fair trade and social responsibility.
Runtime: 20 minutes. Watch the video online. Order the DVD by emailing Luke Upchurch at consint@consint.org
Zoned for Slavery: The Child Behind the Label *
An investigation of very young working women in the Free Trade Zone in Honduras and consequences on their lives due to exploitation (below subsistence wages, lack of access to education, health hazards, forced contraception, denied freedom, harassment, etc.). A National Labor Committee (NLC) representative speaks about workers' actual wages, the cost of production, the US tax support for free trade zones, and the pressure on companies to produce in free trade zones and the effect on American workers. The NLC representative looks at the wider economic impact of paying low wages. Detailed interviews with workers.
Runtime: 23 minutes. Watch a video-clip online
The Strength of the Indigenous People of the Mut Vitz
Organic coffee production is an intricate process from producers. This film traces each step of the process – from planting seeds and soil development to harvesting, shelling, washing and drying, ending in packaging and exporting. The video shows the challenges and achievements encountered by this cooperative of more than 1,000 members.
Runtime: 27 minutes. Buy the film at Global Exchange.
Sweating for a Tee-shirt *
When incoming UCLA freshman Arlen Benjamin stops by the campus gift shop to buy a t-shirt, she notices that her purchase was made in Honduras. Asking the question "Who made this t-shirt?" sends her on a journey with her mother, Medea, through Honduras' sweatshop industry. It also starts her asking where the billions of dollars worth of clothes sold at college stores are being made and what students can do to help eliminate sweatshops.
Runtime: 20 minutes. Buy the film at Global Exchange.
Banana Split
As one of the cheapest, most readily available fruits in the supermarket, this film provides an important look at understanding “the curvaceous fruit from the herbaceous plant.” Each copy of the film comes with an educator’s guide; more information on integrating Banana Split into the classroom is available in both English and French from Shebandowan Films.
Runtime: 47 minutes. Order the DVD in English or French
Pa Pa Paa
“Pa Pa Paa” is an informative film presenting facts about the process of harvesting, processing and selling cocoa. This DVD accompanies a series of educational tools and photographs produced for British schoolteachers to aid in teaching primary school children about Fair Trade and Ghanaian cocoa growers.
Runtime: 35 minutes. Preview and order the DVD
The Strength of the Indigenous People of the Mut Vitz
Summary/Review: Organic coffee production is an intricate process from producers. This film traces each step of the process – from planting seeds and soil development to harvesting, shelling, washing and drying, ending in packaging and exporting. The video shows us the challenges and achievements encountered by this cooperative of more than 1,000 members.
Runtime: 27 minutes. Buy the film at Global Exchange
* Available in RESD, O'Leary 500