tobacco conveyor BOSHUN BELTING Tobacco factory workers at conveyor

Mackey and the team worked with local producers and suppliers, and set high bars for the quality of products on the shelves, banning artificial flavors, colors and preservatives in their first year of trading

Regional context The illicit tobacco market in southern Africa is distinguished by two key facts: first, South Africa provides the largest, most profitable, and therefore most important consumer market and cigarette production hub

Also in my watchlist: Becoming Human from Polen Ly (Cambodian ghost story about reincarnation), A Useful Ghost where someone returns as a vacuum cleaner, Sink - a Jordanian domestic thriller, One Woman One BRA which sounds like incred satire, The Voice of Hind Rajab from Kaouther Ben Hania, Black Rabbit White Rabbit - an Iranian mystery that'll probably melt my brain, Rose of Nevada about a time-traveling fishing vessel, Landmarks from Lucrecia Martel, Songs of Forgotten Trees about female friendship in Mumbai, and Diamonds in the Sand - a decade-in-the-making story about loneliness and belonging

Work best with a Make Your Own tubing machine and tubing tobacco (not hand-rolling tobacco)

17, 2022 in Ely, Minnesota