photo: Courtesy of Speak-it/Fulcrum Productions Ltd
Produced by: Nick Francis Marc Francis
Directed by: Nick Francis Marc Francis
Run Time (mins): 90:00
Multinational companies have made coffee the second most traded commodity in the world. But as westerners revel in designer lattes, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. Tracing one man's fight for a fair price, BLACK GOLD is an eye-opening expose of the eighty billion dollar coffee industry. An INDEPENDENT LENS/ITVS International acquisition.
Premiere: Independent Lens, April 10, 2007 at 10 PM
