http://www.fest21.com/en/views/content/1389/video_vpod Displays user content. en http://www.fest21.com/en/video/cursed_for_gold_trailer <p><strong>Cursed for Gold trailer. A film by OLivier Weber</strong></p> <p><strong>Market Screening in Cannes May 16, 2008 10 pm Palais K</strong></p> <p><strong>Synopsis</strong></p> <p>A new gold rush is sweeping through the Amazon rainforest where scores of women and men hunt for nuggets and specks of gold. But this race for gold is bringing on the destruction of one of the last earthly paradises, the world’s largest tropical forest, the lungs of our planet, where everything and anything can be paid in gold.</p> <p>As a result, a gold ingot cycle has developed—with its batch of insolvents, prostitutes, godfathers, traffickers, whether in French Guiana, Brazil or Suriname. Gold has brought upon disease, mercury, crime, alcoholism. Gold has turned creeks and rivers into dumping grounds.</p> <p>This cycle is that of the destruction of men by men. Whereas the Amazonian rainforest releases 300 tons of gold each year, it receives 120 tons of mercury. An uneven trade: treasure against poison. And as the backdrop, all sorts of traffics are arising: people, weapons, drugs.</p> <p>In the depths of this borderless jungle also lies the tragedy of the Wayanas, a Native American tribe from Guiana, who are being poisoned by mercury, the element essential to gold mining. The Wayanas are doomed by a looming disappearance. Congenital malformations have already been observed in children. The elderly are developing neurological disorders and cancers. Along with the outrage that is mercury comes another massacre of Indians. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&quot;Rivetting, we love it, keep it green!&quot; Filmfestivals.com </strong></p> http://www.fest21.com/en/video/cursed_for_gold_trailer#comments http://www.fest21.com/en/crss/node/12754 cursed for gold trailer FILM Wed, 07 May 2008 01:47:01 +0200 Cursed-For-Gold 12754 at http://www.fest21.com http://www.fest21.com/en/video/cursed_for_gold_the_new_gold_rush_is_a_time_bomb_in_the_amazon_rainforest <p><strong>Cursed For Gold : the new gold rush is a time bomb in the Amazon rainforest.</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Mercury is killing people and destroying the environment.<br />A striking feature film documentary in the wake of &quot;Darwin's Nightmare&quot;</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Video 14 min</p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="inline inline-left"><a href="/en/image/poster_cursed_for_gold"><img src="http://www.fest21.com/files/images/Recto-A4-Cursed4Gold-BassDe.preview.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview" width="276" height="390" /></a></span> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="image-clear"></div> http://www.fest21.com/en/video/cursed_for_gold_the_new_gold_rush_is_a_time_bomb_in_the_amazon_rainforest#comments http://www.fest21.com/en/crss/node/12759 Cursed For Gold video presentation FILM Wed, 07 May 2008 10:45:36 +0200 Cursed-For-Gold 12759 at http://www.fest21.com