Connected By Coffee. Coffee, a drink that many of us drink every day: how many times do we think about the origin of its precious beans and the workers who produce them? Most of the world's coffee farmers still live in poverty. Farmers are exploited by landowners and multinationals.
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Coffee , a drink that many of us drink every day: how often do we think about provenance of its precious grains and ai workers who produce them? Most of the world's coffee farmers still live in conditions of poverty. Farmers are exploited by landowners and multinationals.
The global market, with the ups and downs of coffee prices, does not favor decent living conditions for farmers. “Connected By Coffee” is the title of a project for the realization of a documentary which, also thanks to a fundraiser, can be made public in theAutumn 2013.
The documentary wants to be one testimony of the living conditions and the challenges that coffee farmers face every day, starting with the search for fairer business relations with the coffee companies of the Western world. The project began with a 1000 mile journey between the regions ofCentral America where the greatest cultivation of coffee plantations takes place.
During the trip, the director and activist Aaron Dennis, who will take care of the documentary, has met people who have impressed him with their stories, such as guerrillas who changed their lives, becoming coffee farmers, e women who have managed to overcome gender inequalities, managing to become owners of a farm. The films shot during the trip became part of a series entitled “The Fair Trade Chronicles”. A series of web videos with a similar intent was created by the director himself to document the joys and sorrows of the olive growers in Palestine. Thus was born the documentary “The People and the Olive”.
An analog project ambitious will lead to the creation of the documentary that will tell the daily difficulties and struggles of coffee growers in Central America, and which will focus on the stories of farmers, producers and consumers of coffee who have decided to commit themselves to obtain fairer working conditions, reversing the current model of exploitation. The hope is that the principles of the Fair trade may also involve the cultivation of coffee that takes place on a large scale, on an industrial level. The independent project for the realization of the documentary still needs funds, which are raised thanks to sponsors and donations to be carried out online and.
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Marta Albè
Photo source: Connected By Coffee
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