FAIRTRADE Fortnight comes to Barrow with a film screening event this March.

Organised by Cumbria Development Education Centre (CDEC) as part of their Map Your Meal project, the event at Signal Films, in Abbey Road, on Saturday March 4 will see Miki Mistrati, the director of The Dark Side of Chocolate and Shady Chocolate, giving a live talk followed by screenings of his two films.

The films will take the audience behind the scenes of cocoa production, and travel along the smuggling route which takes trafficked children from native villages across borders to toil as child labour in cocoa plantations, and to visit Corporate Social Responsibility projects and schemes set up by the international cocoa industry.

In between the screenings, there will be Fairtrade refreshments from Fairtrade Foundation partners and a chance to explore the new Map Your Meal smartphone App.

Ambleside-based CDEC is running a three-year project on food systems and ethical consumption.

As part of the project, it is organising a series of free events, including this special screening in Barrow.

It is an opportunity for the residents of Furness to connect with the wider world and explore the links between the food products we all depend on, and the farmers who still aren’t paid what they deserve.

The free event starts at 6pm at the Cooke's Cinema, at Signal Films.