Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2008 : All In This Tea

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All In This Tea

2007

Categories: Best Documentary, EcoCinema

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Run time: 70 min. | USA

This latest documentary from Northern California filmmaker Les Blank (Burden of Dreams, Gap-Toothed Women and first-time director Gina Leibrecht), is a voyage of discovery, an exploration into the world of tea as seen through the eyes of American tea expert and merchant, David Lee Hoffman.

Hoffman is obsessed with tea; during his youth, he spent four years with Tibetan monks in Nepal, which included a friendship with the Dalai Lama, and was introduced to some of the finest tea, the golden nectar with which we can taste the distant past. Today, Hoffman travels the same route in China as one Robert Fortune, a British botanist, who in the 1840s, traveled incognito through China, gathering the finest teas.

Hoffman is after the finest handmade, organic teas that reflect the areas where the plant was grown in China and the talent of its maker. He worries that these small farmers could disappear in a society devoted to production of scale, so even as he buys tea, he is always advocating for the farmer, natural fertilizer and fair trade.

After the film there will be a Q&A with filmmaker Les Blank and a Tea Ceremony presented by David Wong of Tillerman Tea Company

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