Screen/Society--2016 Ethics Film Series--"Black Gold"

Film Screening: "Black Gold" (Nick and Mark Francis, 2006, 74 min, USA, in Amharic, Oromiffa and English w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) / Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. / -- Winner for Best Achievement in Production in British Independent Film Awards (2007) and Best Documentary in Libertas Film Festival and in San Francisco Black Film Festival (2006)! / Trailer: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/blackgold/25666594