About the Film
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MidBo (Muestra internacional documental de Bogotá) 2016 - Colombia
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SiembraFest 2016 - Colombia
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos 2017 - Colombia
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos 2017 - Argentina
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Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto Festival Internazionale di Cinema 2018 - Italy
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Festival Alimenterre Belgique 2019 - Belgium
Awards:
Ethnographic documentary ‘Chocolate of Peace’ / ‘Chocolate de Paz’ (2016), co-directed by Gwen Burnyeat and Pablo Mejía Trujillo about the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, a community of organic cocoa-farmers in a conflict region in Colombia who declared themselves neutral to the war. It has won numerous festival awards, and continues to be used as a pedagogical tool by organisations and individuals worldwide to teach about human rights, peacebuilding, memory, and global food chains. It has been translated into English, German, Italian, Dutch, French and Polish.
The film is based on the same research as the book, Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia.
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Chocolate of Peace depicts the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó’s experiences of resistance, via a journey through their processes of organic chocolate production. From the seed to the product, the cacao is the narrative thread that takes us through the Community’s stories of violence and resilience, and their fight to remain neutral in the face of the Colombian armed conflict.
This film offers a panorama of hope, proof that despite great difficulties it is possible to sow peace through human and economic relationships. It invites us to rethink our relationship with food, to value the efforts of those who produce it, and to build bridges between the victims of the armed conflict and other sectors of global civil society.