People and Planet Season: DROWNED OUT
Part of the People and Planet
| Director: | Franny Armstrong |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
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THE FILM
Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a resettlement site or stay at home and drown.
The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills.
Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care?
DROWNED OUT follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six-year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise…
Website for the film here
REVIEWS
"At once angry, compassionate, disturbing and yet empowering, it makes for urgent and necessary viewing" - TIME OUT
"Heartbreaking" - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Documentaries rarely, if ever, come better than this" - BERMUDA ROYAL GAZETTE
"Masterfully crafted" - ONEWORLD AWARDS JURY
"Quiet, fierce, beautiful" - NEW INTERNATIONALIST
PEOPLE and PLANET Film Season
Many of us are concerned by human poverty as well as the impacts of climate change. However, we rarely think of how intimately connected these issues are.
The People and the Planet film series explores how the well-being of our planet and its people are deeply linked.
Friday 27th February, 7.30: WE FEED THE WORLD
Wednesday 4th March, 7.30: CLIMATE FEVER - In conjunction with Transition Initiative Newcastle
Two short films looking at the effects of global warming, followed by discussion with guest speakers
Wednesday 11th March, 7.30: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER'S CROW
A documentary on the environmental and social impacts of mining in Ecuador's rainforest.
Wednesday 18th March: DROWNED OUT
A film about a family's stand against the building of a dam in India, a fight against the destruction of their land, home and culture.
Other films in the People and Planet:
27
Film: People And Planet Season: We Feed The World (2005)
27 Feb 2009, 7:30 p.m.
A film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
04
Film: People And Planet Season: Climate Fever
4 Mar 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Organised in conjunction with Transition Initiative Newcastle. Two short films looking at the effects of global warming, followed by discussion with guest speakers
11
Film: People And Planet Season: Between Midnight And The Rooster's Crow (2005)
11 Mar 2009, 7:30 p.m.
In the aggressive search for the 'black gold' that drives Western economies, multinational corporations are working to extract billions of dollars of oil reserves from beneath Ecuador's rainforest. This documentary investigates how the operations of the Canadian EnCana corporation are answerable for widespread environmental contamination and human rights violations in the region.