From the Ground Up (2007): cast, story & where to watch
2007 · Film
Released in 2007, From the Ground Up is a notable film directed by Su Friedrich.
What it’s about. With few words and no polemics, From the Ground Up shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with the filmmaker from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City and seeing each phase of coffee production unfold—the growing, picking, processing, distribution, brewing and selling—one comes to understand that most products we use have passed through the hands, and lives, of countless people in numerous countries. As the world’s second most traded commodity after oil, it’s all about the coffee, and about everything else we consume, consume, consume….
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- Where can I watch From the Ground Up (2007)?
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- When was From the Ground Up released?
- From the Ground Up was released in 2007.