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About CIJ Film Week
Full detailsAbout Film Week
Over a week we show a selection of films followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker.
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Bahrain, the Forbidden Country
Bahrain, the Forbidden CountryTuesday 15 January 2013Full detailsFrance 2012Full details
Directors: Stephanie Lamorre
Producers: Luc Hermann
Language: French with English subtitles and voice-over
Duration: 52 min -
The Murder of the Honeybee
The Murder of the HoneybeeWednesday 16 January 2013Full detailsThe Netherlands 2011Full details
Directors: Hetty Nietsch, researcher Manon Blaas
Producers: Mascha Boogaard, Wendel Hesen
Language: Dutch with English Subtitles
Duration: 36 min -
Bloodcoal
BloodcoalThursday 17 January 2013Full detailsThe Netherlands 2010Full details
Directors: Sander Rietveld, Siebe Sietsma
Language: Afrikaans, Dutch, Hindi, Spanish with English subtitles
Duration: 45 min -
The Poison in our Homes
The Poison in our HomesFriday 18 January 2013Full detailsRomania 2011Full details
Directors: Andrei Ciurcanu
Producers: Carmen Avram
Language: Romanian with English subtitles
Duration: 22 min -
Law of the Jungle
Law of the JungleFriday 18 January 2013Full detailsDenmark 2011Full details
Directors: Hans LaCour, Michael Christoffersen
Producers: Henrik Underbjerg, Stefan Frost. Co producer Finn Mathiasen
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Duration: 85 min -
Tracked
TrackedSaturday 19 January 2013Full detailsFrance 2012Full details
Directors: Paul Moreira
Producers: Luc Hermann
Language: Dubbed in English
Duration: 60 min -
Cotton for my Shroud
Cotton for my ShroudSaturday 19 January 2013Full detailsIndia 2011Full details
Directors: Kavita Bahl, Nandan Saxena
Producers: Kavita Bahl
Language: Hindi, Marathi and English. English subtitles
Duration: 75mins
Bloodcoal
Thursday 17 January 6.30pm
Where: Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5AP
Where: Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5AP
UK Premiere
The Netherlands 2010Directors: Siebe Sietsma, Sander Rietveld
Language: Afrikaans, Dutch, Hindi, Spanish with English subtitles
The Netherlands is Europe’s largest importer of carboncoal for power stations.The coal is mainly imported from Colombia and South Africa where the world’s leading companies operate huge coal mines. 'Bloodcoal' examines the consequences of large scale coal mining and the involvement of Dutch energy companies.
In part one the film reveals the mines' effect on the hundreds of thousands people living in the mining region of Witbank, near the world famous Kruger wildlife park. These people experience severe health complaints caused by the coal dust from the mines. The mining also induces massive destruction of the environment. Poisonous dust pollutes the air while acid water destroys everything in its path.
The second part of the film follows a Colombian human rights lawyer in his struggle against expulsion and terror. They discover a ruthless campaign against indigenous Colombians carried out by paramilitaries commissioned by the mines. Union leaders and villagers are being killed and local communities face the threat of expulsion.
The Dutch electricity suppliers admit they know about the severe human right violations but refuse to publish their connections with the mines. Only after profound research did the film makers succeed in unravelling the commercial ties and determining the responsibility of the power companies.
The film (produced by EO’s Netwerk) led to heavy public criticism on the Dutch electricity suppliers and a parliamentary hearing. The companies promised improvements to satisfy their angry customers.
Sander Rietveld studied political sciences and has worked for the Dutch news programmes as an investigative reporter since 2001. He focuses on the operations of large companies and their effect on the environment and human health. His work includes revealing documentaries on illegal clinical trials in India, the abuse of Polish workers in the Netherlands and recently on dangerous medical implants. He works for ZEMBLA, the leading investigative programme on Dutch television. Rietveld directed ‘Bloodcoal’ with Siebe Sietsma for the Channel 1 news programme EO’s Netwerk.
Siebe Sietsma studied journalism and worked as a reporter for the Dutch national TV since 2001. He was the first Dutch journalist to report on systematic sexual abuse in state youth institutions. He also revealed forms of deception of donations by charity organizations and (international) NGOs, large scale wrongdoings in the transportation of food, and the funding of the highly popular but secretive Dutch political party TON. Since 2011 he produced a variety of investigative reports as one of the faces of the RTL News research desk. RTL News is the biggest commercial news programme in The Netherlands. Together with Sander Rietveld he directed 'Bloodcoal' for EO’s Netwerk.
Q&A
Followed by a discussion with Sander Rietveld and Siebe Sietsma on how to find evidence and make companies take responsibility for their actions.
Bookings
£5 or £4 - concs, except Cotton for my Shroud: £8 (£7 concs) and includes the reception. Cash only on the door.
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