A FILM festival with an ethical theme is set to come to Chesham next month, it has been announced.
The fairtrade town will host The Chiltern Fairtrade Film Festival, a two-day event featuring films followed by discussion sessions, with the aim of raising questions about how to be a consumer with a conscience.
It will begin on March 3 with a screening of Black Gold - a film featuring an Ethiopian campaign to save 74,000 coffee farmers from bankruptcy.
And later that evening An Inconvenient Truth - the controversial film on global warming by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore - will be shown.
Both films will be followed by panel discussions featuring representatives of political parties, business, resident groups and the film world, speaking on the issues raised.
The following day the diamond trade and corrupt big business will be high on the film agenda.
The celebration, which will take place at the Elgiva Theatre in St Mary's Way, is part of the town's Fairtrade Fortnight 2008 celebration, running between February 25 and March 9.
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