About
The Shooting
This film was shot in Burkina Faso from December 2006 to April 2007, with additional interviews filmed in Canada and the United States during the fall of 2007.
The film will include scenes from interviews a group of producers in the village of Karangasso-Sambla in Burkina Faso, SOFITEX and Union workers, as well as knowledge from external experts on the question. Other footage of daily Burkinabè life and a visit to a SOFITEX ginning plant and quality control lab will serve as a background for a commentary on the rampant oppression in the cotton trade.
The Filmmaker
Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin holds an H.B.A. in International Development Studies Co-op and Economics from the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
She lived in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, from September 2006 to June 2007. She worked in Support to Management and Monitoring & Evaluation of Income-Generating Activities for HIV-AIDS affected/infected people with the Canadian volunteer program Uniterra.
She speaks five languages and has travelled to eleven countries in Latin-America, Africa and Asia. Her former communications experience includes managing the fundraising and providing three weeks of intensive training on the use of open-source software for a team of young journalists in Chad.
Her research interests are fair trade, social capital, microfinance and sustainable community economic development.
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