Still from The Carbon Rush
Still from The Carbon Rush
 

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The Carbon Rush

by Amy Miller
This commanding doc effectively counters the propaganda around carbon trading by featuring the voices of those most affected.
2012  ·  1h24m  ·  Canada
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
English subs
About the Film

Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Bio-gas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil. What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they affecting the people who live in these countries?

THE CARBON RUSH takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. So far, their voices have gone unheard in the cacophony surrounding this multi-billion carbon industry, nicknamed “green gold” by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support themselves. Dozens of campesinos have been assassinated.

Traveling across four continents, THE CARBON RUSH shows the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking feature documentary reveals the true cost of carbon trading, showing who stands to gain and who stands to lose.

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Festivals and Awards
2014
The Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival, Official Selection
2014
Sedona International Film Festival, Arizona,, Official Selection
2013
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil , Official Selection
2013
Festival International de Cine Ambiental, Buenos Aires Argentina, Official Selection
2013
Reframe Film Festival, Peterborough ON, Official Selection
2013
World Community Film Festival, Courtenay BC, Official Selection
2013
Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival, Oslo, Norway, Official Selection
2013
Global Vision Film Festival, Edmonton, AB, Official Selection
2013
Saskatoon's Environmental Film Festival, Official Selection
2013
Newport Beach Film Festival, California, USA, Official Selection
2013
Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland, Official Selection
2013
Rio De Janiero International Film Festival, Brazil, Official Selection
2012
Vancouver International Film Festival, Official Selection
2012
RIDM, Montreal, Canada, Official Selection
In the Press
Review
Rabble
Editor
Boban Chaldovich and Étienne Gagnon
Cinematographer
Paul Kell
Producer
Amy Miller and Byron Martin
Narrator
Daryl Hannah
Soundtrack Composer
Benoit Groulx
Writer
Amy Miller
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About the Director

Amy Miller

Amy Miller is an award-winning director, producer and writer based in Montréal. Her feature films as director include Tomorrow’s Power, No Land. No Food. No Life., The Carbon Rush and Myths for Profit. She most recently produced the documentary Another Word For Learning. Her documentaries have been screened at festivals throughout the world, and have been broadcast in over two dozen countries and are included in the library catalogues of hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. She remains dedicated to creating documentaries for transformative social change and helping out grassroots campaigns for justice.

 
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