An Oxfam Hong Kong recommendation: A documentary film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival – BLACK GOLD

Oxfam Hong Kong and the Hong Kong International Film Festival present the Hong Kong premiere of BLACK GOLD, a critically acclaimed film that has sent shock waves through the global coffee industry.

Coffee, the elixir that millions of us indulge in every day, is a complex beverage. In one sense, it is such a valuable product that in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, people call it “black gold’. Yet, coffee farmers there, and all across the developing world, are not benefiting; in fact, they are being impoverished and exploited by the coffee trade.

This groundbreaking documentary film doesn’t only ask why. The film also shows how one Ethiopian man is working to transform coffee into a Fair Trade product in his country. One of his buyers is a Fair Trade business in England, which Oxfam has supported.

First screening:
28 March 2007, Wed
7:00pm
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall, Tsimshatsui

Second screening:
9 April 2007, Mon
3:00pm
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall, Tsimshatsui

Oxfam will host a public forum after each screening, with Fair Trade activists, cultural critics and film directors after the screenings, and Fair Trade coffee and other products will be on sale, too.

Speakers:

Pang Ho Cheung (Film Director)
Phoenix Leung (Fair Taste)
Stanley So (Oxfam Hong Kong)

Please contact the Hong Kong International Film Festival for ticketing information (Tel: 2970 3300 Website:http://www.hkiff.org.hk)

Free admission
speakers:

28/3 Pang Ho-Cheung
So Pui-kin Stanley

9/4 Simon Shen
Leung Puifung

Conducted in Cantonese (With translation into English)

Enquiry: Tel: 2520 2525
Email: fairtrade@oxfam.org.hk
Website: www.maketradefair.org.hk

Speakers of the forum subject to change

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