terra di tutti film festival
Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
6th edition | 2-14 october 2012
Hazaribagh, toxic leather
Elise Darblay, Eric De Lavarene | 2012 | France | 52’
Hazaribag is a huge slum in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. At the break of day a pestilential smell stifles the atmosphere. Chromium, Mercury, Ammonium infest the soil and the river Buriganga. Every day tonnes of waste is illegally dumped by the 280 tanneries operating there. Welcome to Hazaribag! This slum become one of the first world leather producer, because of the production cost rising in China. Workers’ days are at least twelve hours for a 40 Euros monthly fee. Workers risk cancer, birth defects, ulcers and other diseases. This condition is an healthy and environmental drama on which the local authorities seems not to care.
Elise Darblay is author of several documentaries. She has become one of the directors of 7 Billion Others by Yann Arthus Bertrand, a project focused on the Millnnium Development Goals. She currently works for the WA Productions, writing and producting documentary series on social and environmental issues.
Eric De Lavarene in Cambodia becomes a journalist for a Phnom Penh magazine. He returned to Paris after four years, to continue his journalistic work. Here he works for Aina NGO, coordinating training course and working as a correspondent for Radio France. Since 2003 tells about war in Afghanistan and Pakistan for French radios, making documentaries such as The Hunt of Ben Laden, The Country of the Taliban e Islamization of Pakistan.