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CinemAmbiente in cooperation with Circoscrizione VI - Torino, organizes the film exhibition 'Ecokids 2011', screenings for the primary schools of the city. All the events will be introducedby an environmental expert.
The dark side of global development: the Niger Delta, once a natural paradise, has been transformed into an inferno of rigs and refineries operated by Western oil companies that have destroyed the area's ecosystem and reaped enormous profits. Over 20 million people live and work in the Delta, where se vere contamination of the flora and fauna has led to changes in the food chain. In reaction to repeated attacks by special forces and the Nigerian police in the oil firms' hire to stifle protest, the local population has resorted to armed retaliation. The film shows for the first time from an insider's perspective the life-threatening risks the members of one of these homeland defense groups, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger (MEND) are willing to take to stop the devastation.
Yorgos Avgeropoulos (Athenes, 1971) works as a journalist for the major Greek TV networks. Since 2000 he has collaborated on assignment from NET Channel on Exandas, a series of news reports, of which Delta Oil’s Dirty Business is part, from around the world on highly topical issues; the series was screened in a retrospective at the 2006 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Edizione 2009
PANORAMA - FOCUS ENERGIA
DOCUMENTARY
Greece , 2006, 65'
REGIA/DIRECTOR
Yorgos Avgeropoulos
TAGS:
Energy And Energetic Sources, Petroleum/Oil, Niger