Director: Kum-Kum BhavnaniRun Time: 68 min.
Call Number: HD9200.G76 N68 2013
"Smartly directed by UCSB Sociology professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, the film fleshes out the opening line supplied by one Susan Sarandon: 'Who doesn’t love chocolate? But there’s more to this decadent product than we know.' Actually, news has been spreading, if not fast or wide enough, about the inhumane child slave labor deployed in key West African cocoa-growing regions, especially the Ivory Coast. . . . But [Bhavnani] has wisely chosen to personalize her tale and give it a face by focusing on one particular 'ethical chocolate' company, the Grenada Chocolate Factory, run by the charismatic NYC émigré Mott Green, a self-described 'political activist version of Willie Wonka.'”
—Joseph Woodard, Santa Barbara Independent
