{"id":17710,"date":"2012-02-12T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=17710"},"modified":"2012-02-12T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T03:38:14","slug":"nothing-like-chocolate-kum-kum-bhavnani-2011-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=17710","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Like Chocolate (Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 2011): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Krista Marquez, Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myweku.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"353\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/\/><br \/>\nIt is true: nothing tastes better than ethically made, organic chocolate from the temperate climates of Grenada.\u00a0 In the Caribbean Sea lies this island which is growing and producing their own chocolate.\u00a0 <em>Nothing Like Chocolate<\/em>, a film by Kum-Kum Bhavani (<em>The Shape of Water<\/em>, 2006)\u00a0 is the story of Grenada Chocolate Company and how it came to be today. Mott Green shares with us his experiences among the natives he becomes close with and his belief in the power of chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, we learn where chocolate comes from and how its made.\u00a0 Kum-Kum Bhavani juxtaposes the conventionality of chocolate processing with Mott Green&#8217;s and Doug Brown&#8217;s ethically made, alternative, quality chocolate.\u00a0 We are also introduced to cacao farmers in Grenada and learn about their struggles with the chocolate market.<\/p>\n<p>Sole surviving and dedicated leader of Grenada Chocolate Company, Mott Green, runs a small, shareholder-owned chocolate cooperative using antique factory equipment and ethical labor; he hires local help and buys fresh cacao from his neighbors and friends at a relatively high price.\u00a0 Alternatively, Bhavani exposes the truth behind the greed of corporate chocolate market and its affect on the world&#8217;s cacao farmers and laborers.<\/p>\n<p>Bhavani and Green work beautifully together in this film, shedding light on child-slave labor-free chocolate.\u00a0 This documentary shows the reality of the wrongful corporate marketer in one perspective, but leads you to contemplate other unjust realities of our world.\u00a0 Your heart will grow and your life will change forever after watching this beautiful and emotional film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Krista Marquez, Santa Barbara Film Festival. It is true: nothing tastes better than ethically made, organic chocolate from the temperate climates of Grenada.\u00a0 In the Caribbean Sea lies this island which is growing and producing their own chocolate.\u00a0 Nothing Like Chocolate, a film by Kum-Kum Bhavani (The Shape of Water, 2006)\u00a0 is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}