Green Edge Films: Black Gold - Feb 28, 2009 92Y Tribeca

Please join the Green Edge NYC network for a film screening of Black Gold.Read More about the film

Food and beverage is available for purchase and can be taken into the theater while viewing the film.

After the film, stay for a discussion led by Scott Codey from the New York City Fair Trade Coalition.

WHEN? February 28, 7:30pm

HOW MUCH? $12/person - PAY NOW!

WHERE? 92Y Tribeca

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.

Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.