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Free Political Film Screenings Cinema Politica is a project organized by Montréal-based non-profit überculture, and comprises a network of several local film exhibition series across Canada, Europe and the USA.

Blue Gold: World Water Wars

Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday October 5, 2009
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Concordia

Blue Gold: World Water Wars

It's not the money. It's the power.

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Sam Bozzo / USA, Canada / 2008 / 90 min

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?


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Credits

SAM BOZZO

Sam Bozzo produced, directed, and edited "Blue Gold: World Water Wars", his second feature documentary which he shot in nearly a dozen countries. His first documentary focuses on computer hackers and is being produced by TriggerStreet Productions.

An Art Center College of Design Alumni, Sam wrote, directed, and edited three international award winning short films. "Holiday on the Moon", distributed by Doug Liman's Hypnotic Films, has been screened on the Sundance Channel and Showtime and is available on a compilation DVD entitled Spooks and Creeps. Prior to this, the film won the TriggerStreet.com Short Film competition held at the Toronto International Film Festival. "The Shadowed Cry" was created as a Top 10 Director assignment for Project Greenlight, run by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. "For Which It Stands" was screened in the Sundance Film Festival.

As a writer, Bozzo's horror screenplay "The Garden" was produced by legendary producer Stephan J. Cannell. Bozzo is also a published novelist with his book "Sweet and Sour", a dark comedy based on his script of the same name. Sam is actively seeking funding for this $1.3 million project as his narrative directorial debut under his new production company Purple Turtle Films.

MARK ACHBAR

Mark Achbar has worked in film for 30 years. He is one of a wave of non-fiction feature filmmakers reaching large international audiences through mainstream theatres, TV, DVD, and the internet. He co-produced and co-directed the two most successful Canadian feature documentaries ever made: 'Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky' and the Media and 'The Corporation'. His films popularize radical critiques, win dozens of prestigious awards, and gross millions at the box-office.

SI LITVINOFF

Si Litvinoff Executive Produced ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’, the cult classic sci-fi starring David Bowie which deals with an extra-terrestrial water crisis. He also Executive Produced ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and Produced ‘Walkabout’, Prior to film production Litvinoff was for 12 years a lawyer who represented many iconic figures including Andy Warhol.

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Malcolm McDowell is perhaps best known for starring as the infamous Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick’s controversial ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Prior to this, he rose to stardom in Lindsay Anderson’s two cult classics “If…’ and ‘O Lucky Man!’. McDowell is currently featured in the hit TV series ‘Heroes’.

Awards & Festivals

2008 Winner, Vancouver International Film Festival, Audience Choice for Best Environmental Film
2008 Winner, Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Documentary

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