squeezed: the cost of free trade in the asia-pacific + black gold

Black Gold

Travelling from the lush rice paddies of Thailand to squatter settlements in a Manila rubbish dump, Michael Cebon and Dominic Allen's Squeezed: The Cost of Free Trade in the Asia-Pacific (40 mins, Australia, 2007) creates an emotional document of how globalisation affects farmers in the Asia-Pacific.

Marc and Nick Francis' Black Gold (78 mins, UK, 2006) is an eye-opening exposé of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry that traces one man's fight for a fair price. As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice.