Featured Event
VitalTalks Live Presents: Film Premiere of “Tobacco Slave”
“Tobacco Slave,” by award-winning director Roy Maconachie, the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath and tobacco industry watchdog STOP, exposes tobacco giant Imperial Brands and other companies through first-hand accounts from farmers in Malawi. They reveal an often predatory contract system that keeps farmers trapped in poverty and creates an unsafe environment for children who frequently have to work to support their families.
The film screening will be followed by a fireside chat with the film’s director, Roy Maconachie, and Noy Thrupkaew, Reporting Fellow and Director of the Ida B. Wells Fellowship Program at Type Investigations, TED Talk speaker
This event will confront labor exploitation and human trafficking, the role industries play in deepening inequity, the importance of storytelling and solutions to end colonial-era practices that entrench people in poverty and poor health.
