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Video shorts & Online-Only ClipsJust 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
Frontline: Guatemala/Mexico - Coffee Country
A Frontline reporter follows a group of U.S. coffee buyers to Guatemala and Mexico during the “coffee crisis,” when the commodity price of coffee significantly plunged. The U.S. buyers collect concrete information about the wide discrepancy in the prices farmers receive for coffee. While some conventional farmers received only $.07 a pound, those connected with Fair Trade get about $1.26 a pound. The film delicately highlights the positive impact Fair Trade has by cutting out the middlemen, whom the farmers have decoratively named “coyotes”.
Runtime: 18 minutes. Watch the video online.
Coffee Profits Children
This video is about Pura Vida Coffee (a Seattle-based company which sells 100% Fair Trade, Shade Grown, Organic coffee) using profits to support children in need from coffee-growing communities worldwide. Get a powerful glimpse into the efforts of these courageous social entrepreneurs who use the world's second largest traded commodity and the world's favorite sport to assist the world's most valuable resource.
Runtime: 7 minutes. Watch the video online.
Agent of Change
Briefly profiles and compares two Nicaraguan coffee farmers: Daniel, a conventional farmer and Reyna, a fair-trade farmer and cooperative board member. Daniel struggles to support his family through selling coffee to coyotes, whereas Reyna sells her shade-grown, organic coffee directly to Equal Exchange. Emphasizes the difference that churches can make simply by using Fair Trade Certified coffee at church functions. Explains Fair Trade certification. Runtime: 11 minutes. Watch the video online.
Produced by: Equal Exchange’s Interfaith Program
251 Revere Street
Canton, MA 02021
(781) 830-0303 x228
http://www.equalexchange.com/interfaith
Equal Exchange: Awaken Your Consciousness
Equal Exchange: Awaken Your Consciousness (2005) Take a journey with Equal Exchange through the coffee growing lands of Nicaragua. By watching and sharing this video, you can join U.S. consumers working to transform business and trade. Learn how Fair Trade offers hope and dignity to farmers across the globe and choices to shoppers, like you, who care. Running Time: 13 minutes Watch the video online or order it free from Equal Exchange.
Grounds for Hope
Mr. Bean explains that consumers can do right by the farmers by purchasing Fair Trade coffee like Equal Exchange, partner of the Lutheran World Relief Coffee project. Runtime: 22.5 minutes - cartoon. Borrow it free by calling 1-800-LWR-LWR-2.
Traidcraft in Bangladesh
A Traidcraft volunteer gets a chance to meet a group of women in Bangladesh who produce some of the goods she sells. She discovers that Fair Trade has empowered communities like the one she visits where community members have installed proper sanitation facilities, better housing, schools, and proper meals. The film also highlights the way Fair Trade has contributed to women claiming their voice in their community.
Runtime: 9 minutes. Watch the video online.
Ants that Moved Mountains
The film credits the Nicaraguan women of the Nueva Vida cooperative with a strong work ethic and a powerful desire to succeed. This short film exhibits how true collaboration can lead empower all partners in the process.
Runtime: 15 minutes. Watch the video online
The Power of Trading Fairly
The Power of Trading Fairly showcases three stories of established, long-term partnerships with artisan groups in Kenya (stonework), Guatemala (beadwork) and Bangladesh (palm work). These Fair Trade partnerships provide sustained hope for producers as they build their communities together.
Runtime: 17 minutes. Borrow it free
Grains of Change
Carolyn Barnwell travels through Northern Thailand to speak with organic rice farmers who are practicing sustainable agriculture and are Fair Trade-certified. The film documents the benefits of putting people at the center of trade and shows how their environment, their health, and their way of life, as well as the health of rice consumers, has improved in recent years. Barnwell received the Carrie Hunter-Tate Award from the American Anthropological Association in 2007 for her research with organic rice farming communities in Thailand.
Runtime: 10 minutes. Watch the video online.
Make a Difference
TransFair USA: You Can Make a Difference with Fair Trade (2004) This Flash presentation, focusing on coffee, features TransFair USA's CEO Paul Rice as narrator. He walks viewers through the need for Fair Trade, impacts on the ground, and how consumers can make a difference.
Runtime: 5 minutes. View the presentation online
Solidarity In a Cup
The CRS Fair Trade Coffee Story (2005) This multi-media presentation introduces you to the farmers who grow your coffee in Nicaragua, explains what Catholic Relief Services is doing to support them, and suggests eight ways you can help!
Runtime: 15 minutes. Watch the video online.
A Student’s Guide to Fair Trade on Campus (2005)
Carry the energy from a national movement to your campus! Share an empowering way that your campus can make a difference with Fair Trade. In this video, you’ll hear from a coffee producer from a Nicaraguan cooperative as well as student activists from throughout the United States.
Runtime: 12 minutes. Available free of charge from:
Oxfam America
26 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
(800) 77-OXFAM
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/coffee