LATEST SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

PURA VIDA WINS BEST SHORT ENVIRONMENTAL DOC AT CINESTRAT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SPAIN AND BONITA HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR CINE POBRE FILM FESTIVAL, HOLGUIN, CUBA

Jan's second film, Pura Vida has been selected to be shown at CINESTRAT 08, Alicante, Spain and has been awarded the Best Short Environmental Documentary Award - CINESTRAT will take place between the 1st and 6th of April 08 - for further details go to CINESTRAT

Bonita has been selected for Cine Pobre in Holguin, Cuba 15th - 20th April 2008 CINE POBRE

 

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 2008

This year for Fairtrade Fortnight Green Gold will have a presence at various events from Inverness to Plymouth with film screenings of “Bonita:Ugly Bananas” and “Pura Vida?”, installations and educational talks and will also include a tour of Argyll. The events will end with a special screening at The Wee Picture Picture House, Campbletown's Community Cinema and Scotland's oldest surviving cinema built in 1912.

For full details of events please visit:
http://www.jannimmo.com/current.htm

More about the The Wee Picture House

Screening of Pura Vida at the Byre Theatre, Fife

Jan Nimmo has made documentary films as part of Green Gold: Bonita:Ugly Bananas and Pura Vida? Both films are available on DVD and there are both English and Spanish only versions (PAL or NTSC). Jan is available for Q & A sessions after screenings - by arrangement.

Read a recent article about the films

Read an article in the Scotsman by Billy Briggs- >>>>>

Bonita: Ugly Bananas

Glasgow based artist, Jan Nimmo, has been gathering images and testimonies to make a series of portraits of banana workers since 2000. In 2002 she made a field trip to Ecuador.

Although Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas, the workers have the lowest pay and the worst conditions in the whole of Latin America. Ecuador's biggest banana baron is Álvaro Noboa of Bonita Brands.

Noboa is the country's richest man and owns the world's fourth largest banana company but his workers were only paid $3.00 a day - less than the legal minimum wage.

When Jan met workers who decided to organise and strike to gain the most basic of labour rights she was able to film the conditions within their plantation. She then found herself witnessing a violent attack on the peaceful occupation of a Bonita banana plantation called Los Alamos.

Jan worked in collaboration with FENACLE to gather the material for this film

© A Cacomistle Production 2004

BONITA SCREENINGS

BONITA was broadcast on Ecuadorian television in Nov 2006 on Ecuavisa, Tele Amazona and Gamavisión during the presidential elections as part of the anti Noboa campaign.

Screening at UGC Cinema, Renfrew Street, Glasgow as part of Document 2 International Human Rights Film Festival on 19th Sept 2004 at 5 pm Cinema 17

Screening at Gallery III at Glasgow Print Studio, King Street Glasgow 24th Sept 2004

Camcorder Guerrillas, Cafe Mono, Kings Court 8th November 2004

SEAD AGM at Theatre Workshop Edinburgh, 16th November 2004

Guayas Province Banana Workers Association, Ecuador November 2004

Dundee University with One World Centre February 2005

Fife Fair Trade Festival Spring 2005

Edinburgh International Science Festival 13th of April 2006 for more details click here

MOVIMIENTOS (Latin American Network) London 6th April 2006

Banana Link Speaker Tour - London Metropolitan University 28th March 2006

Deep Fried Film Festival, Central Scotland 11th August 2006-

Received Best Documentary Award

WEA, St Mungo's Museum, Glasgow - October 2006

St Andrews Students One World Group, University of St Andrews, Students Association St Mary's Place St Andrews

16th May 2005- 5th anniversary of the attack on workers at Los Alamos in Ecuador remembered by a special screening at CTDU, Haughs of Airth Falkirk

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