{"id":18069,"date":"2012-02-02T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2012-02-02T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:50:12","slug":"nothing-like-chocolate-kum-kum-bhavnani-2011-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=18069","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Like Chocolate (Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 2011): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Lopez<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at the SBIFF.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNothing Like Chocolate\u201d is a must-see film!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because everyone loves chocolate!<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like me,\u00a0you never think about where cocoa comes from when\u00a0you bite into a mouth-watering chocolate bar.\u00a0 After seeing \u201cNothing Like Chocolate,\u201d produced and directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, I think twice about chocolate before buying it.<\/p>\n

Kum-Kum Bhavnani brought her heart and soul to this film and as a result, she captured the essence of Grenada and its people.\u00a0 In the film, we meet memorable Grenadians up-close in conversations and watching their daily lives.\u00a0 We watch how cacao beans are harvested and processed into chocolate liquor (dark chocolate).\u00a0 To make a chocolate bar, the basic ingredients are cocoa, sugar and vanilla, and a bit of lecithin.<\/p>\n

The world hasn\u2019t heard much about Grenada since 1983, when U.S. troops landed on the tiny island in the Caribbean.\u00a0 However, with the release of \u201cNothing \u00a0Like Chocolate,\u201d Grenada is back on the world map.<\/p>\n

Kum-Kum Bhavnani also brought the world\u2019s attention to Mott Green, an amazing man who is following his passion.\u00a0 It takes a village to raise a child, and in this case, Mott Green turned a village around to become self-sufficient under sustainable living conditions, which in turn increased their standards of living. \u00a0Mott Green uses only organic cocoa beans grown locally by the co-operative farmers to make his chocolate using antique recycled equipment.\u00a0 The Grenada Chocolate Company (GCC) is now providing a sustainable community in Grenada in that they receive fair prices for their organic cocoa beans.\u00a0 The GCC is now producing and exporting chocolate thanks to Mott Green, who moved to the island from Oregon in 1998, and later formed a co-operative for the Grenadian cocoa farmers.<\/p>\n

Mott Green is reaching out to chocolate companies to\u00a0sell his chocolate, literally carrying chocolate bar sampes in a suitcase, not only for his co-operative but to offset\u00a0the injustices on the other side of the Atlantic on the Ivory Coast of West Africa.\u00a0 The Ivory Coast exports tons of cocoa every year where child slave labor is used to harvest the cacao.\u00a0 Parents sell their children to\u00a0plantations where they are enslaved, beaten, and live under very harsh conditions.\u00a0 In 2001, the International Labor Organization estimated that there were 378,000 children working the fields in the Ivory Coast.\u00a0 More recently, those figures have dropped down to 200,000 children, but the ideal situation is zero slave labor.<\/p>\n

I was at the Metro screening of \u201cNothing Like Chocolate\u201d and was astounded that Mott Green was there sitting with the audience.\u00a0 When he stood before the audience, we all stood up and gave him a standing ovation. \u00a0\u00a0Mott Green is truly an inspiration for us all for doing the right thing.\u00a0 And Kum-Kum Bhavnani did the right thing in producing this film.\u00a0 My hat goes off to her and her amazing film crew, which was remarkably only a handful of dedicated people to make such a powerful film.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Linda Lopez. \u00a0Viewed at the SBIFF. \u201cNothing Like Chocolate\u201d is a must-see film!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because everyone loves chocolate! If you\u2019re like me,\u00a0you never think about where cocoa comes from when\u00a0you bite into a mouth-watering chocolate bar.\u00a0 After seeing \u201cNothing Like Chocolate,\u201d produced and directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, I think twice about chocolate before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069","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\/1958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}