Event: Screening of A Blooming Business
Date:  July 30th, 6:45pm
Location: 111 Queen’s Park, Toronto
Cost: PWYC (pay-what-you-can) admission

Info about the screening from the Organizers:
A Blooming Business
52 min, Netherlands/ Kenya

The roses we enjoy may come with more thorns than we realize. Delving deep into the heart of the global flower industry, A BLOOMING BUSINESS shows us the difficult reality behind the pretty flowers. In Kenya, giant flower factories use massive amounts of pesticides and chemicals to keep their flowers alive and then pollute the local water supply, harming the very same people they employ. An investigation reveals the horrific working conditions and sexual abuse that the workers must endure in order to keep their job. A BLOOMING BUSINESS explores the human and environmental repercussions of the floral industry. A rose may no longer smell as sweet.

“It’s time to wake up and smell the imported roses.” -Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival

“Part poetry, part explosive exposé.” -Newport Int’l Film Festival

“A quietly formidable film.” -Vancouver Film Festival

Check out the Blooming Business trailer

An Official Selection from our 2009 Film Festival, Come early and enjoy 2-for-1 admission to the Museum, or come only for the screening and pay what you can.

Mixed Greens at the Gardiner Museum happens the last Friday of every month, 6:45pm.

For more information check out Mixed Greens page http://www.planetinfocus.org/pif-365/mixed-greens-monthly-screening