Fairtrade

Change Today

Change today-choose Fair Trade! This short film explains the difference we make when we do.

Shot in machinima (making films using computer game engines) by young people, this film uses The Sims to tell us why we should change today and choose fair trade

Length: 0.54 mins

Coffee or Cocaine?

This film tackles the relationship between unfair treatment of farmers and drugs

In this hard hitting film the World Fair Trade Organisation argues that paying farmers a decent price for legal crops would help tackle the problem of drug production.

Length: 1.40 mins

FairMail Peru

FairMail produces fair trade greeting cards in Peru and India with photos taken by local teenagers

FairMail offers young people photography training, part-time work, medical insurance and guidance in making their future plans. The teenagers get 50 % of the profits of the sale of their own cards to finance their housing and education. This short film let’s the teenagers themselves tell the inspiring story behind their cards and how they now can all finance their own education.

FairMail is fair trade certified by the World Fair Trade Organization and you can buy their cards from http://www.fairmail.info/

Length: 7.46 mins

Edinburgh Ethical Christmas Fair 2009

An inside view of the 2009 Ethical Christmas Fair in Edinburgh city centre.

Short documentary featuring exhibitors and visitors to this year’s successful Edinburgh Ethical Christmas Fair. The event took place on Castle Street, in the heart of Edinburgh’s world famous shopping centre.

Length: 8.00 mins

Nuestro Abuelo

An intimate portrait of a Mexican Huichol family; one of the world's purest indigenous tribe

An intimate portrait of a Mexican Huichol family; one of the world's purest indigenous tribes. A wonderful people who live in harmony with their environment, shamans and farmers live as their ancestors have for 1000s of years in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental. This is the first time a non-Mexican film maker has captured their lives and only the 2nd time they've been filmed Available in English and Spanish from www.eye-cuefilms.com

Length: 2.14 mins

Shopping second-hand and vintage – doing it in style!

Two young reporters take on the high street by exploring how to shop second hand and vintage.

Write Here, Right Now reporters April and Attia were recently given the challenge of investigating how consumers could shop ethically – without compromising on style or money! The video explores what they found and how their perceptions about charity and vintage shopping were changed. See April’s supplementary articles on the experience at Write Here, Right Now: http://www.writehererightnow.org/profiles/blogs/ethical-fashion-ethical-...

Length: 6.45 mins

Helping The Poor Trade Their Way Out of Poverty

How a small investment can go a long way to improve livelihoods in the slums of Nairobi Kenya

The startling truth about how a small investment can go a long way in improving livelihoods in the slums of Nairobi Kenya. For more information on how you can invest with Shared Interest please visit http://www.shared-interest.com

Length: 8.00 mins

Shared Interest Big Swap Video Blog Day 14

Shared Interest Big Sawp Video Blog - a daily taste of Fair Trade Fortnight!

Called The Big Swap, the Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 campaign is encouraging us to exchange our everyday items for Fairtrade. Subsequently Shared Interests Sally Reith will be swapping her heart out between 22nd February and 7th March. You can follow the highs and lows of her ethical exchanges at http://blog.shared-interest.com Why not even see if you can catch her out with a product she may not know about? After all, guvnor, its a fair swap.

Length: 5.00 mins

Shared Interest Big Swap Video Blog Day 13

Shared Interest Big Sawp Video Blog - a daily taste of Fair Trade Fortnight!

Called The Big Swap, the Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 campaign is encouraging us to exchange our everyday items for Fairtrade. Subsequently Shared Interests Sally Reith will be swapping her heart out between 22nd February and 7th March. You can follow the highs and lows of her ethical exchanges at http://blog.shared-interest.com Why not even see if you can catch her out with a product she may not know about? After all, guvnor, its a fair swap.

Length: 5.00 mins

Harry Hill and The Knitted Character go Fairtrade nuts!

Harry Hill and The Knitted Character chat about his Fairtrade nuts. Enjoy!

Harry Hill and The Knitted Character – the soft toy favourite from’ Harry Hill’s TV Burp’ – chat about his Fairtrade nuts in this exclusive short film. Harry developed his own range of Fairtrade nuts, ‘Harry’s Nuts!’ working with Comic Relief supported Fairtrade nut company Liberation. He was inspired by Paul Newman’s ‘Newman’s Own’ range of salad dressings. Harry makes no money out of these products – he came up with the idea to support peanut farmers he visited in Malawi. As you will see, The Knitted Character is fascinated to hear all about this…

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