Corporate Crime Film Festival in solidarity with the struggle to clean up Hindustan Unilever's Mercury pollution in Kodaikanal

[Karishma Pais]

From: Shri Prakash <prakas...@gmail.com>

Poisoned (an exhibition of Photos by Sudhanshu Malhotra) and Corporate Crime Film Festival in solidarity with the struggle to clean up Hindustan Unilever's Mercury pollution in Kodaikanal

Three films on corporate crime will be screened

 at 6.30 p.m. each day on 8, 9, 10 March, 2010.

Venue: Alliance Francaise,
College Road, Nungambakkam

8 March: The Corporation: By Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

This movie explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

9 March: Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda. By Shri Prakash

In Jadugoda the activities of mining, milling and tailing-dam by the Uranium Corporation of India Limited, have deposited radioactive waste into the rice fields owned by the Adivasi people of the Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. The Adivasi have unknowingly utilized the water and land in these areas. This film documents the painful experience of the people of Jadugoda as the impact of thirty years of radiation dumping begins to manifest itself in the form of disabilities, congenital defects in new born, cancer and other diseases.

10. March: The Yes Men Fix the World. By Mike Bonnano and Andy Bichlbaum

The Yes Men Fix the World is a documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. Two gonzo political activists pose as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.

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Archanaa Seker: 9840523235
email: nity6...@gmail.com
Organised by Alliance Francaise of Madras and Corporate Accountability Desk of The Other Media.