terra di tutti art festival
Social cinema and performing arts from the Global South
9th special edition for the European Year for Development 2015 | 7-11 october
TRANSGENIC WARS
Paul Moreira | France | 2014 | 52'
The march towards the dominance of GM products in agriculture started 15 years ago but where will it end? Today in Argentina all agriculture is transgenic but after 15 years the weeds have adapted and the Glyphosate no longer works. In response farmers have started using hazardous chemicals in an indiscriminate and unregulated manner. In some areas the rate of serious genetic deformities in children has exploded. We meet the families and doctors convinced that living so close GM farms is the cause. There is a one in two chance that the pork chop you had for dinner last night came from an animal that had been fed on transgenic soy. We visit the Danish farms where both the amount of the pigs born with deformities and the number dying from gastric diseases has dramatically increased. The animals are fed on a transgenic combo of GM soy that was treated with the herbicide Glyphosate. How has transgenic agriculture managed to conquer agriculture so quickly? Whilst the US government is beholden to the transgenic lobby many European countries have managed to hold out, but for how much longer will they be able to resist?
French investigative reporter, Paul Moreira founded in 2006 Premières Lignes, a French independent television news agency, producing investigative documentaries for the major French networks and international distribution. His investigative documentary “Iraq, a nation’s agony”, produced in 2006 received numerous prestigious awards including best documentary at Monte Carlo’s International Television Festival. In 2009, he produced and directed for Canal+ “Afghanistan: On The Dollar Trail”, the documentary received best investigative award at the FIGRA international film festival and was broadcasted on numerous networks in Europe, USA, Australia and Japan, and a UK premiere at the CIJ investigative film week in 2010. Paul Moreira created and co-anchored with Luc Hermann the investigative programme 90 Minutes on French network Canal+. The monthly investigative programme focused on international controversies, wars and conflicts, multinational corporations, health stories, as well as covering political stories in France. Paul Moreira has worked for CAPA television news agency. In 2004, with Luc Hermann, he launched a freedom of information act (FOIA) campaign to lobby French politicians.
