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Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
6th edition | 2-14 october 2012
Bigpela Bagarap (Big damage)
David Fedele | 2011 | Australia | 43′
Bigpela Bagarap (Big Damage) takes place in Papua New Guinea and tells the story of exploitation and unkept promises. The unfortunate subjects are those that find themselves being treated as second class citizens in their own country, treatment reserved on the part of the lumber companies and corrupt politicians. The landowners find themselves constricted to sign documents that they do not comprehend, deceived with the promise of access to services such as clean water, health and education. In reality these basic services are rarely granted, instead there proceeds the destruction of territory utilized for hunting, the pollution of water sources and the permanent destruction to a certain style of life.
David Fedele, Australian documentary filmmaker, self-produces and self-finances his own project, with a particular interest in questions regarding cultural, humanitarian and social justice. His documentary emerged after a trip to Papua New Guinea has won the prize for Best Documentary at Film Festival Portobello 2010. Fedele returns to Papua New Guinea in 2011 to produce Bigpela Bagarap, nominated for the Best Feature Film at Film Reel Earth Environment in 2012 in New Zealand. At the beginning of 2012 he spends two months in Ghana working on E-wasteland.