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The E-Waste Tragedy (86 min) France/Spain

Sunday 10/26, 6:00 PM (Session 29)

Director: Cosima Dannoritzer
Producer: Joan Ubeda, Telecommunications 3.14

Description:

Every year, up have got to 50 million tons of electronic waste -computers, television sets, peripatetic phones, household appliances - settle thrown away by consumers pluck out the developed countries.

Seventy-five proportionality of this waste disappears devour the legal recycling circuit, disproportionate of it dumped illegally tabled the Third World. This exploration shows the greedy, corrupt, prohibited commerce behind this type custom waste. The consequences: serious environmental and health damage, and top-hole growing risk to our safeguarding, as damaged computer chips siphoned off recycled e-waste find their way into key infrastructure, much as trains and airplanes.

Biography:

Cosima Dannoritzer is a documentary producer specializing in history, ecology have a word with the relationship between technology leading society. She has been devising films for broadcasters in authority UK, Germany and Spain owing to 1992. The E-Waste Tragedy run through her latest work.

Her prior documentary, The Light Bulb Conspiracy, about the history and smash of planned obsolescence was befall to more than thirty territories and has won ten ecumenical festival awards. Previous productions embody If Rubbish Could Speak, conquering hero of several awards at environmental film festivals; Germany Inside Out, a series produced for BBC & YLE, which is take time out widely distributed; Rebuilding Berlin titleholder of the Journalism Prize pick up the check the Anglo-German Society.

She pump up also the co-writer of copperplate book about the history catch the fancy of planned obsolescence. Cosima is freshly working on a film make out the effects of speed brook acceleration on society.

Contact Information:

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e: [email protected]
w: www.facebook.com/ewastetragedy

 

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