Black Gold Film Host

Where: 303 VanReken

When: 1 pm Saturday the 12


Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Black Gold is a documentary film that follows the production and trade of coffee in order to explain the impact of the coffee industry on both the farmers and the companies that employ them. The stories focus on raising awareness of the oppression inside this trade that, to the western world, is widely unknown.

Here are some links to reviews of this film.

Both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have fairly good reviews for this film.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10006485-black_gold/ 

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/black-gold/critic-reviews

The San Francisco Chronicle, however, gave the film a fairly poor review.


http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Also-opening-today-2466613.php#flick&type=movies

Before seeing the film here is a trailer to give you a better understanding of what to expect.