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is co-presenting the film Source at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
A powerful film that reveals the price paid by ordinary people for Azerbaijan's oil exports.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
June 9-22 at Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th Street, Plaza Level
Full schedule www.hrw.org/iff Ticket info; Box office (212) 875-5600 or www.filmlinc.com
Presents:
SOURCE (Zdroj) (New York Premiere)
Martin Mare & Martin Skalský, Czech Republic, 2005, 75m, video, doc
Azerbaijan is ranked one of the world's most corrupt countries, where a reigning ruling family is in its second generation of power. Baku in Azerbaijan, is also the site of the world's first oil well, and is once again becoming a focus for foreign investors as the origin of a major oil, gas, and pipeline project developed by an international consortium led by BP. In Source, a small, mobile and highly inventive Czech film crew travels around the country to investigate and record the impact of this most recent energy boom. They film the surrealist Soviet-era oil fields around Baku, with locals oblivious to the environmental dangers, striking images of cows grazing on polluted land and children playing in toxic sludge. With startling access and more then a little black humour, the filmmakers interview a fascinating cross section of people involved with and affected by the oil boom - allegedly corrupt politicians, oil company employees, businessmen, angry women whose husbands and sons work for very little money in shockingly polluted conditions in this industry. Source also cleverly examines the links from commuter highways in the West back to energy development in Azerbaijan. With the majority of the population living under the poverty line, the country's post-Soviet government is promising oil will bring widespread economic benefits to all, but could this "liquid gold" be more of a curse than a blessing for this troubled country?
Presented in association with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Sun June 11: 6:30; Wed June 14: 9; Thurs June 15: 1
http://www.hrw.org/iff/2006/ny/films.html#22
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Comments: 3
There are AMAZING things happening with activist documentary film makers around the world. Knowing this, helps me to stay sane when I think our country has gone nuts. I just got a DVD yesterday about a documentary film workshop for young people in Myanmar (Burma). Run by a German filmmaker friend, these kids had no idea what a documentary was and by the end of the workshop, they'd made some AMAZING films.
Thanks for your ethusiastic encouragement.
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