Buyer Be Fair - The Promise of Product Certification
About the Film
FILM SUMMARY
INTERVIEWS
MAP OF FILMING
NEWS & REVIEWS
ENDORSEMENTS
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SCHEDULED EVENTS
PRESS KIT
OUR PARTNERS
CREDITS
Map of Filming

This map shows the places where parts of BUYER BE FAIR were filmed and the location of particular interview stories in the program. While we traveled extensively in making the program, we filmed only a very tiny fraction of the Fair Trade coffee and FSC wood stories that are happening around the world.

Map of Filming

Move your mouse over a dot to see information about that filming location.

Mexico

Oaxaca (capital city)

  • Diego Woolrich, Café La Antigua
    DIEGO WOOLRICH is the owner of Café La Antigua, a coffee shop in Oaxaca City, Mexico. He also owns a coffee plantation.
  • Jorge Cuevas, Sustainable Origins
  • Father Franz van der Hoff, founder of Fair Trade movement
    Father FRANZ VANDERHOFF is a Dutch priest who works in southern Mexico and is considered the "founder" of the Fair Trade coffee movement.

Xanica

  • Jose Vasquez, Fair Trade cooperative "La Trinidad"
    JOSE VASQUEZ is a coffee farmer in Santiago de Xanica, Oaxaca, Mexico, and a member of the La Trinidad Cooperative, which sells Fair Trade coffee.

Los Naranjos

  • Fair Trade cooperative "La Trinidad"

Santa Catarina Ixtepeji

  • The town received WWF prize for sustainable logging

Ixtlan de Juarez

  • Jose Aquino - furniture factory, lumber mill received WWF prize for sustainable logging

Puerto Angel

  • Beatriz Avalos, Universidad del Mar
    BEATRIZ AVALOS is a professor Ecology at the Universidad del Mar in Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, Mexico. Educated at Stanford University, she is a leading expert on the eco-systems of southern Mexico and the impacts of coffee-growing and other economic activities on biodiversity in the region.

Georgia, US

Atlanta

  • 2002 Forest Leadership Conference

British Columbia

Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island

  • Larry Baird, IISAAK (http://www.iisaak.com/)
    LARRY BAIRD is a traditional Nuu-Chal-Nuth chief on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and a leader of IISAAK (the word means "respect" in Nuu-Chal-Nuth), a First Nations company managing FSC certified land on Clayoquot Sound, BC. Baird has been a logger for more than 30 years.

Vancouver, B.C.

Washington, US

Seattle

  • Jack Kelly, Caffe Ladro owner
  • John Schwagert, Home Depot wood buyer

Tacoma

  • Matt Warning, University of Puget Sound
    MATT WARNING is a Development Economist at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He has been studying the Fair Trade system for six years. He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
  • Sara Bodnar, University of Puget Sound
    SARA BODNAR now works for the Thanksgiving Coffee Company in Fort Bragg, California. As a student at the University of Puget Sound, she was a leader in the effort to bring Fair Trade coffee to the campus.

Oregon, US

Portland

  • David Ford, CEO Metafore
  • Endura Wood Products

California, US

Westwood

  • Don Hansen, Roseburg Resources
    DON HANSEN is the forest manager for the California forest lands of Roseburg Resources Company, the larges US producer of plywood. The lands he manages are FSC certified. Roseburg Forest Products

Chester

  • Jay Francis, Collins Pine Corporation
    JAY FRANCIS is forest manager for the California forest lands of the Collins Companies, a timber corporation based in Portland, Oregon. Francis manages 100,000 acres of evergreen forest which is completely FSC-certified. Collins was the first US company to be certified.

California, US

Oakland

  • Paul Rice, TransFair USA (http://www.transfairusa.org/)
    PAUL RICE is President and CEO of TransFair USA, the Fair Trade certifying non-profit organization in the US. Rice is a USC trained economist who lived and worked in Nicaragua for eleven years before founding TransFair.
  • Randy Hayes, Rainforest Action Network (http://www.ran.org/)
    RANDY HAYES is now the Sustainability Director for the office of Mayor Jerry Brown in Oakland, California. He was the founder of the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) and directed that organization for many years.

Colorado, US

Boulder

  • Perry Odak, Wild Oats supermarkets
    PERRY ODAK is the President and CEO for Wild Oats, a Boulder, Colorado, based natural foods supermarket chain with more than a hundred stores around the US. Wild Oats has made a commitment to Fair Trade and does an excellent job educating customers about the value of buying Fair Trade products, using colorful displays throughout its stores.

Vermont, US

Richmond

  • Richard Donovan, SmartWood
    RICHARD DONOVAN is the Director of SmartWood, a Vermont-based non-profit affiliate of the Rainforest Alliance, which serves as a third-party certifier of forest lands seeking the FSC label on their products. Along with Scientific Certification Systems, a for-profit company in Oakland, California, Smartwood is the leading FSC certifier in the US.

Washington DC, US

  • Barbara Bramble, National Wildlife Federation (http://www.nwf.org/)
    BARBARA BRAMBLE is senior program advisor for international affairs at the National Wildlife Federation. She is a member of the international board of directors of the Forest Stewardship Council and also has been active in the development and promotion of shade-grown coffee campaign.

Lappland, Sweden

  • Sveaskog forest - timber harvesting
  • Sami herders
  • Maria Adlers - Mala mill supervisor
  • Lycksele, Hedlunda furniture factory

Uppsala, Sweden

  • Par Stenmark, IKEA corporation
    PAR STENMARK is the former environmental manager for the IKEA corporation in Sweden. IKEA gives priority to FSC wood in making its products.

The Netherlands

Utrecht

  • Hans Bolscher, former director Max Havelaar Foundation
  • Max Havelaar Foundation

Amsterdam

  • Gemma Boetekees, Director of FSC Europe
  • Julia Samuel, Diederick Huizinga, TV and Radio producers
    JULIA SAMUEL is a television producer in the Netherlands, who helped create public service announcements promoting FSC after witnessing the destruction of African rain forests.
  • Gamma (Do-it-yourself store)

Germany

Bonn

United Kingdon

Garstang

  • World's first Fairtrade town
  • Bruce Crowther
    BRUCE CROWTHER led the effort to make Garstang, a small town near Lancaster, England, the World's First Fairtrade Town.
  • Rosalind Whittam, young student


Oaxaca State, Mexico Georgia, United States British Columbia, Canada Washington, United States Oregon, United States Westwood, California, United States Oakland, California, United States Colorado, United States Vermont, United States Washington, DC, United States Lappland, Sweden Uppsala, Sweden The Netherlands Bonn, Germany Garstang, United Kingdom