The global arms trade makes billions of profit each year off the backs of countless human lives, all while fostering corruption, controlling international policy and creating suffering around the world. Johan Grimonprez’s (“Double Take”) new documentary “Shadow World” examines the shady world of the arms trade in order to shed light on the malfeasance that occurs right under our noses every single day.
Read More: Watch: ‘Shadow World’ Trailer Shines a Light on Hard Truths the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Based on Andrew Feinstein’s book “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” and produced by Joslyn Barnes (Louverture Films) and Anadil Hossain (Dillywood, Inc), the film unravels some of the world’s largest arms deals via those involved in perpetrating and investigating them, exploring how it operates under the guise of legality and why high-level leaders are never prosecuted for their crimes.
Read More: Watch: ‘Shadow World’ Trailer Shines a Light on Hard Truths the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Based on Andrew Feinstein’s book “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” and produced by Joslyn Barnes (Louverture Films) and Anadil Hossain (Dillywood, Inc), the film unravels some of the world’s largest arms deals via those involved in perpetrating and investigating them, exploring how it operates under the guise of legality and why high-level leaders are never prosecuted for their crimes.
- 10/12/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
The winners have been announced at the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The festival’s top prizes were awarded to Ben Sharrock’s Pikadero (UK-Spain), which took the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s Suntan (Greece) which won Best International Feature Film, and Johan Grimonprez’s Shadow World (Us), which won Best Documentary Feature Film.
The Michael Powell jury, which included actress Kim Cattrall, Spanish filmmaker Iciar Bollain and actor Clancy Brown, also gave a special mention to Mercedes Grower’s Brakes.
On their selection of Scottish film-maker Sharrock’s Basque-language debut about a young Spanish couple’s attempt to navigate their country’s economic crisis, the Michael Powell jury said: “We wanted to recognise the very personal and individual voice on director Ben Sharrock for his film Pikadero. In a year when the jury viewed a selection of very distinctive and different films, his film really stood out.”
On handing...
The festival’s top prizes were awarded to Ben Sharrock’s Pikadero (UK-Spain), which took the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s Suntan (Greece) which won Best International Feature Film, and Johan Grimonprez’s Shadow World (Us), which won Best Documentary Feature Film.
The Michael Powell jury, which included actress Kim Cattrall, Spanish filmmaker Iciar Bollain and actor Clancy Brown, also gave a special mention to Mercedes Grower’s Brakes.
On their selection of Scottish film-maker Sharrock’s Basque-language debut about a young Spanish couple’s attempt to navigate their country’s economic crisis, the Michael Powell jury said: “We wanted to recognise the very personal and individual voice on director Ben Sharrock for his film Pikadero. In a year when the jury viewed a selection of very distinctive and different films, his film really stood out.”
On handing...
- 6/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Interest also building on arms trade expose Shadow World ahead of buyers-only screening.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House is reporting strong interest in Carmine Amoroso’s documentary Porno e Liberta, exploring the growth of the Italian porn industry from the 1970s onwards.
Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in January, Munich-based Donau Films has acquired German and Austrian rights and Scandinavian rights have gone to Swedish Njuta Films.
Amoroso’s documentary traces the growth of Italy’s porn industry from the 1970s onwards, interviewing pornographers such as Riccardo Schicchi and touching on issues such as censorship, sexual revolution and popularisation of some of its stars such as Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, who was elected to parliament in 1987.
In other deals, Johan Grimonprez’s arms trade exposé Shadow World, based on Andrew Feinstein’s factual best-seller The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, has sold to...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House is reporting strong interest in Carmine Amoroso’s documentary Porno e Liberta, exploring the growth of the Italian porn industry from the 1970s onwards.
Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in January, Munich-based Donau Films has acquired German and Austrian rights and Scandinavian rights have gone to Swedish Njuta Films.
Amoroso’s documentary traces the growth of Italy’s porn industry from the 1970s onwards, interviewing pornographers such as Riccardo Schicchi and touching on issues such as censorship, sexual revolution and popularisation of some of its stars such as Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, who was elected to parliament in 1987.
In other deals, Johan Grimonprez’s arms trade exposé Shadow World, based on Andrew Feinstein’s factual best-seller The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, has sold to...
- 2/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Picture about Danish artist Per Kirkeby opened Cph:dox.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide house has picked up world rights to Anne Wivel’s Man Falling, about renowned Danish artist Per Kirkeby’s struggle to paint again after a debilitating accident, which opened Cph:dox at the beginning of November.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet said she acquired the film at the Toronto International Film Festival but launched sales at Idfa.
Following its Cph:dox premiere, the work has been playing in Idfa’s Sounds Real section, devoted to the use of sound in documentary.
Clanet was also at Idfa with Danish Lea Glob’s upcoming solo feature documentary Apolonia, Apolonia which was presented at the festival’s co-financing event, the Forum.
It is described in the Forum catalogue as “a coming of age story and existential voyage into the mind of a young woman’s thoughts on sexuality, art, idealism and love”, revolving around the figure of Apolonia who has...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide house has picked up world rights to Anne Wivel’s Man Falling, about renowned Danish artist Per Kirkeby’s struggle to paint again after a debilitating accident, which opened Cph:dox at the beginning of November.
Wide House chief Anais Clanet said she acquired the film at the Toronto International Film Festival but launched sales at Idfa.
Following its Cph:dox premiere, the work has been playing in Idfa’s Sounds Real section, devoted to the use of sound in documentary.
Clanet was also at Idfa with Danish Lea Glob’s upcoming solo feature documentary Apolonia, Apolonia which was presented at the festival’s co-financing event, the Forum.
It is described in the Forum catalogue as “a coming of age story and existential voyage into the mind of a young woman’s thoughts on sexuality, art, idealism and love”, revolving around the figure of Apolonia who has...
- 11/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
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