Devil's Bargain Shelley Saywell
sabato 12, h 17.30, Teatro Studio
Devil's Bargain: a journey into the small arms trade
Paese/Country: Canada
Anno Produzione Film: 2008
Formato/Format: 35mm
Durata/Running Time: 58'
Produzione/Production: Bishari Film Production
Produttore/Producer : Deborah Palloway
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Shelley Saywell
Montaggio/Editing: Deborah Palloway
Fotografia/Cinematography: Michael Grippo
Sound Editor: Peter Sawade
Musica/Music: Kevin Staples
Distribuzione/Distribution: Film Transit International Inc.
Armi "leggere", come il revolver o il Kalashnikov, il fucile da caccia o la bomba a mano: tutta merce in vendita nel colossare affare del traffico d'armi internazionale. Chi le compra? Chi le vende? La domanda e l'offerta si incontrano alle grandi fiere - legali - in tutto il mondo. Mentre il contrabbando continua da un continente all'altro, in aereo, in nave, in autocarro. Dove finiscono le armi prodotte in Russia, Cina, Inghilterra, Francia, Italia, Germania, India, Stati Uniti o Israele? Uno dei più potenti trafficanti d'armi ci spiega come funziona questo mercato privo di alcuna regolamentazione. La regista, Shelley Saywell, gira il mondo e si ferma in Somalia: é il paese africano dove si conta il maggior numero di armi, ma su suolo somalo non c'è nessuna fabbrica che le produce...
ÒSmall armsÓ such as revolvers or Kalashnikovs, shotguns or grenades are for sale and fuel the huge market of international arms traffic. Who buys them? Who sells them? All over the world, supply and demand meet at the vast Ð and perfectly legal Ð fair trades; yet the smuggling from one continent to another by air, sea, and truck goes on. Where do the arms produced in Russia, China, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, India, United States or Israel end up going? One of the most powerful arm dealers explains the rules dominating this entirely unregulated market. Filmmaker Shelley Saywell travels the world and stops in Somalia, the African country with the highest number of arms. Yet not a single manufacturer is based in that country...
Note di regia / Director's Statement
This film travels around the world, from Yemen to Somalia to Kenya to look at the way guns flow across borders and destabilize states. It travels from Bosnia to Moldova, from Paris to Florida, to attempt to show the way in which the arms trade flows from legal to illegal markets - unstoppable unless we decide - as an international community, that a treaty which curbs it is worth more than the markets that drives it. From the beginning to the end, the gun trade is about money and geo -political influence.
It took me a long time in the research phase to make the link between the shiny new guns in the Western gun shows and the recycled battered AKs that were fueling so much of the devastation in Africa and beyond. But the link is definitely there - its called the GREY Zone -and it made possible - not so much by the murky characters who inhabit it, as by our countries lack of political will to plug the loopholes with a binding treaty. The victims, of course, speak for themselves.
Shelley SaywellPaese/Country: Canada
Filmografia/Filmography
Shahira, Canada, 1989, doc
No man's land: women frontline journalists, Canada, 1994, doc
Fire and Water, Canada, 1994, doc
Rape: A Crime of War, Canada, 1996, doc
Kim's Story: the Road from Vietnam,Canada, 1997, doc
Legacy of Terror: the Bombing of Air India, Canada, 1998, doc
Crimes of Honour, Canada, 1999, doc
Out of the Fire, Canada, 2000, doc
A Child's Century of War, Canada, 2001, doc
Streetnurse, Canada, 2002, doc
Generation of Hate and Generation X-Saddam, Canada, 2003, doc
Angry Girls, Canada, 2004, doc
Hamas: Behind the Mask, Canada, 2005, doc
Martyr Street, Canada, 2006, doc
Devil's Bargain: a journey into the small arms trade, Canada, 2008, doc
