Flip The Coin:
The Bitter Taste of Tea
UK Premiere

Photos - Lotte la Cour

Friday 5 February at 6.30pm
City University, London
£5 full price; £4 concessions
Weekly pass £25 full price; £20 concessions

Denmark and Norway, 2008
Producer/director:  Erling Borgen and Tom Heinemann
Language: Danish with English subtitles
Duration: 58’30
Awards: Aljazeera Freedom Award, FAO - Award at AGRO - Film Festival, The Timbuktu Foundation Award for Critical Journalism, Denmark, The Association for Investigative Journalism, Best Television Production 2009, Denmark.
 
Flip The Coin is a series of TV documentaries that examines different aspects of globalisation. The Bitter Taste of Tea looks at how tthe poorest workers are paying a high price for the supply of cheap tea to the west.

In the beautiful lush tea gardens of Kenya, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, millions of tea-workers are plucking tea for multinational companies.

The companies promise consumers that they will act as responsible members of the global society; protecting the environment and ensuring good working and living conditions for the workers.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

In the west, consumers have turned to Fairtrade believing it guarantees that the workers in the Fairtrade certified tea estates get a get a fair wage and better working conditions. This film tells the true story of how Fairtrade is not at all fair.

Q&A

The screening will be followed by Tom Heinemann answering questions about investigating the truth behind corporate claims.

Further information

Flip the Coin

Watch a trailer

CIJ is a registered charity (number 1118602) and all proceeds from the ticket sales will go towards CIJ training events.