Dreamland
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Cinema Politica London
Monday April 19, 2010
Screening begins 00h00
Venue: London Public Library, Central Branch, 251, Dundas St. Stvenson & Hunt Room
This is the second sreening of the three part series presented as a co-sponsored program with the London Public Library
Dreamland
One of the best environmental films ever made - about the fight over Iceland's resources.
Þorfinnur Guðnason & Andri Snær Magnason / Iceland / 2009 / 89min
This is one of the best environmental films ever made. An incredibly, moving, inspiring and fantastically political film that will make you want to be a better steward of this planet.
SYNOPSIS: How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over small communities.
Dreamland is a film about a nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government started the largest mega project in the history of Iceland, to build the biggest dam in Europe to provide Alcoa cheap electricity for an aluminum smelter in the rugged east fjords of Iceland. Today Iceland is left holding a huge dept and an uncertain future.
In Dreamland a nation with abundance of choices gradually becomes caught up in a plan to turn its wilderness and beautiful nature into a massive system of hydro-electric and geothermal power plants with dams and reservoirs. Clean energy brings in polluting industry and international corporations. It’s the dark side of green energy.
Trailer
Credits
Directors:
Þorfinnur Guðnason
Andri Snær Magnason
Producer:
Sigurður Gísli Pálmason
Co-Producers:
Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Hrönn Kristinsdóttir
Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson
Hlín Jóhannesdóttir
Production Coordinator:
Svanhildur Thors
Based on a book by:
Andri Snær Magnason
Cinematography:
Þorfinnur Guðnason
Guðmundur Bjartmarsson
Hjalti Stefánsson
Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editor:
Eva Lind Höskuldsdóttir
Sound design:
Kjartan Kjartansson
Björn Viktorsson
Huldar Freyr Arnarsson
Music: Valgeir Sigurðsson
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