Filmmakers Lauralee Farrer, Tamara Johnston, Jordan McMahon & Tricia Harding In Attendance
A truly uplifting story of finding inner peace and strength by reaching out to make a difference in the world, The Fair Trade is an immensely rich portrait of a young woman living under the weight of a bartered soul. Overwhelmed by the tragic death of her fiancé, Tamara Johnston was on the brink of suicide when she contracted a timeline for God to prove to her that life was meaningful. She quit her affluential job with 
Dreamworks, created a start-up fair trade skincare company with her twin sister and brother-in-law and became an activist for human rights and social justice causes. However, it wasn’t until a trip to the co-op in Africa from which Anti-Body buys its organic shea butter that Johnston witnesses her actions’ effects on the world around her, freeing her from the grip of her devastating past. Director Lauralee Farrer’s spellbinding account is a beautifully told tribute and a vitally indispensable lesson wrapped into one.
Film Hosted by LifeSource Natural Foods
Filmography: First Feature
Tamara's Fair Trade business: www.anti-body.com
www.thefairtrademovie.com
Showing with the short film
Sharq
Directed by Erik Sandoval
Kuwait, 23 mins.
With an eye-opening lesson that shows how far reaching America’s impact is on foreign culture, Sharq is the story of six small-town Kuwaiti boys who won’t let anything get in their way of finding the world’s strongest soccer ball…even if it means having to seek out a legendary shopping emporium in the sprawling metropolis.
Lauralee Farrer (Director)
Director Lauralee Farrer has been writing, producing, and directing for over thirty years. As principal filmmaker of Burning Heart productions, she is the creative energy behind their projects in several stages of development.
Farrer studied in Heidelberg, Germany, and at various California institutions including Pepperdine University and UCLA, before gaining a degree from Azusa Pacific University. Farrer's freelance work for humanitarian organizations
has taken her all over the world and this is where the material from which her directing and screenwriting voice emerges.
Tamara Johnston (Producer)
Tamara Johnston joined the producing team of Burning Heart Films in 2004, but her working relationship with Farrer extends back over fifteen years and includes various theater, film, print, and other media pairings with socially conscious endeavors. Johnston's passion for conscious living spurred involvement in several independent producing experiences. She has taught video production, is a professional photographer, and graduated Magna Cum Laud with a degree in Psychology from Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California.
Jordan McMahon (Cinematographer)
Jordan McMahon graduated from California State University with a degree in Film and Television Studies. Visual storytelling as a means of depicting lives and stories of substance has been a long-standing passion that has prompted his interest in meaningful and worthwhile projects. McMahon’s directorial debut, Gift Of God, showcases the life of an average family and how they care for a child with special needs. Some of McMahon’s short films and collaborations include the acclaimed AFI short film, My Back Yard Was A Mountain. McMahon interned for Stun Creative Production Company and Hearken Creative in Pasadena. He is currently in production on another documentary film, Poet.
Tricia Harding (Associate Producer)
A native of Los Angeles, Tricia Harding did work in Liberal Studies at California State University at Los Angeles and received a degree in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University. She has spent the last ten years as a project manager in various fields including everything from pharmaceutical research to church planning. Her specialty is in making things go from discussion to completion. With a background that includes experience directing several theatrical productions, Harding was prompted to come on board as production member of The Fair Trade because of her own lifelong passion for social justice and because of the story’s intersection of faith and personal loss. Harding is currently working on her first novel.
THE FAIR TRADE 
