MOVIES - DOCUMENTARIES
DIRTY PARADISE
by Daniel Schweizer
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Today an incredible sanitary and ecological disaster is taking place in the heart of Amazonia in an overseas department of France, on the border between Suriname and French Guyana. «Dirty Paradise» shares the story of a thousand Indians who are trying to survive the devastation caused by 10,000 illegal gold-seekers who hide in the forests.
The gold fever has swept across the region and mercury contamination has created health problems. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come. «Dirty Paradise» tells the story of an Amerindian tribe which refuses to disappear silently or remain indifferent.
Credits
Year: 2009
Country: CH, F
Running Time: 76 Min.
Director: Daniel Schweizer
Author: Daniel Schweizer
Producer: Dschoint Ventschr, Swiss, Matthieu Belghiti, Maha Productions
Co-Producer: Mathieu Belghiti, MAHA Productions, Daniel Schweizer, Horizon Films, Arte G.E.I.E., TSR, SSR SRG Idée Suisse
Camera: Eric Turpin
Editor: Christine Hoffet, Karine Sudan
Sound: Danis Gauthier
Music: Peter Bräker
Production Manager: Pierre Carrique, Sereina Gabathuler
Production Assistant: Franziska Sonder
Awards Grand Prix, FIFDH Geneva, 2010
Prix de la meilleur image, C&iiff Lempaut, 2010
1. Eine-Welt-Filmpreis, NRW, 2011
Festivals International Film Festival Locarno, 2009
15th Sarajevo Film Festival, 2009
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2009
International Film Festival Watch Docs Human Rights Warsaw, 2009
Amazonas Film Festival, 2009
C&CiiFF Lempaut, 2010
FIFDH Genf, 2010
Montreal Festival of New Cinema, 2010
8e Festival international Signes de Nuit Paris, 2010
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, 2010
Festival des Libertés, Bruxelles, 2010
Gdansk docfilm Festival
Solothurner Filmtage, 2010
23e FIPA Festival Int. de Programmes Audiovisuels Biarritz, 2010
16th Cine Eco Environmental International Film and Video Festival, 2010
Terra Festival, Guadeloupe, 2011
Rome Independent Film Festival, 2011
