Keynote by author Andrew Feinstein ( The Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade ), plus post-screening panel discussion. Director in Attendance
Date/Time: Feb 17 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancity Theatre | Event calendarCost: $5.00
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Shadow World reveals how the international trade in weapons – with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents – fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering.
The film unravels a number of the world’s largest and most corrupt arms deals through those involved in perpetrating and investigating them. It illustrates why this trade accounts for almost 40% of all corruption in global trade, and how it operates in a parallel legal universe, in which the national security elite who drive it are seldom prosecuted for their often illegal actions.
"Hard-hitting… Grimonprez doesn’t want audiences to get out their handkerchiefs; he wants them to get out their protest signs, their megaphones and their voting ballots." Jay Weissberg, Variety
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