SHADOW WORLD
Director: JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
Shadow World reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade - the only business that counts its profits in billions and losses in human lives.
Directed by Johan Grimonprez ("dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y") and in part based on Corruption Watch UK founder Andrew Feinstein's globally acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, the film reveals how the international trade in weapons - with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents - fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering.The film unravels a number of the world's largest and most corrupt arms deals through those involved in perpetrating and investigating them. It illustrates why this trade accounts for almost 40% of all corruption in global trade, and how it operates in a parallel legal universe, in which the national security elite who drive it are seldom prosecuted for their often illegal actions. Shadow World posits alternatives through the experience of a peace activist and war correspondent, as well as through the voice of Eduardo Galeano who contributed selections from his stories for the film.
Ultimately Shadow World reveals the real costs of war, the way the arms trade drives it, how weapons of war are turned against citizens of liberal democracies and how the trade decreases rather than enhances security for us all. In shedding light on how our realities are being constructed, the film offers a way for audiences to see through this horror, in the hopes of creating a better future.
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PRODUCTION FACTS
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Screenwriter: Andrew Feinstein
Producer: Joslyn Barnes, Anadil Hossain
Editor: Per K. Kirkegaard, Pedro Collantes, Dieter Diependaele
Associate Producer: Burton Ritchie, Harbor Picture Company
Cinematographer: Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Executive Producer: Bertha Foundation, Abigail Disney, Danny Glover, Driss Benyaklef, Sally Jo Fifer, Wilbur Leguebe
Composer: Karsten Fundal
Co-Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Emmy Oost, Onomatopee Films, Final Cut for Real
Co-Executive Producers: David Menschel, Michael J. Zak, Donald Rubin, Jodie Evans, Susan Rockefeller, Matthew Palevsky
In Association With: Bertha Foundation, Fork Films, Vital Projects Fund, ITVS, RTBF, DR, Danish Film Institute, BritDoc Circle, Zap-o-matik
Story by: Andrew Feinstein, Johan Grimonprez
Based on the book by: Andrew Feinstein
Cast: Andrew Feinstein, David Leigh, Vijay Prashad, Jeremy Scahill, Lawrence Wilkerson, Chris Hedges, Robert Fisk, Trita Parsi
AWARDS
Edinburgh Int. Film Festival 2016 - Best Doc Feature
Guanajuato Int. Film Festival 2016 - Honorable Mention, Int. Feature Documentary Award
Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2016 - Winner Tiempo de Historia Award
Ostend Film Festival Belgium 2017 - Ensor Best Documentary
FESTIVALS
Tribeca Film Festival 2016 – Spotlight, San Francisco Film Festival 2016, Encounters South African Int Doc FF 2016, Durban IFF 2016, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016, Guanajuato IFF 2016, New Zealand IFF 2016, DokuFest Kosovo, International Doc and Short FF Kosovo 2016, Filmfestival Kitzbühl 2016, Take One Action! London 2016, Screening Rights Film Festival (Birmingham) 2016, Vancouver Film Festival 2016, Reelworld Film Festival Toronto 2016, Antenna Documentary Film Festival (Sydney) 2016, Film Fest Ghent 2016, Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2016 Right Now Film Festival (London) 2016, Amnesty International Film Festival | Festival Cinéma & Droits Humains (Paris) 2016, IDFA | Int Doc FF Amsterdam 2016, We the Peoples’ Film Festival, UK, Ciné Droit Llibre, Burkina Faso, Docpoint Helsinki, Finland, IF Istanbul, Turkey, Thessaloniki FF, Greece, One World FF, Romania, Ljubljana Doc FF, Slovenia, WOW FF, Wales, Festival of Tolerance, Croatia, TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey, My Raynes Park Festival, UK, South Africa National Arts Festival, UK, Lesomos Int Doc FF, Cyprus, Freedom Film Fest, Malaysia, Peckham & Nunhead Film Festival, UK, War Stops Here, UK, Fotodoks, Germany, Dhaka Lit Fest Bangladesh 2017, Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2017, Ostend Film Festival Belgium 2017
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