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| Modern Slavery |
| Original title |
Moderne slaveri |
| Type |
Documentaries |
| Director |
Thomas Robsahm, Tina Davis |
| Short summary |
An encounter with people living under extremely restricted conditions, in Uganda, India, Moldova, Kambodia and France. The film is also a critical investigation of the negative consequences of neoliberal economical politics. The project examines the claim that it's in the interest of certain economical and social forces to preserve modern slavery, and that these forces are supported by corrupt authorities and indirect participation by multinational companies.
- With a powerful political message and intense human portrayals, this may turn out to be an important political film from two of our most distinguished documentary film makers.
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| Cast |
Kevin Bales, Noam Chomsky, Sir Bob Geldof, Joseph Stiglitz, Somaly Mam, Supriyah Awasthi, Jan Egeland, Johan Galtung |
| Screenplay |
Thomas Robsahm, Margreth Olin |
| D.O.P |
Kim Hopkins, Joachim Høge, Marianne Bakke |
| Editor |
Hilde Bjørnstad |
| Composer |
Trond Bjerkenæs, Thomas Robsahm |
| Sound |
Lydhodene |
| Producer |
Thomas Robsahm and Margreth Olin |
| Production company |
Speranza Film | Box 619 Sentrum | N-0106 Oslo | Tel: +47 95 24 04 18 | E-mail: speranza@speranza.no | www.speranza.no |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (national) |
2009-04-23 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
DIGIBETA |
| Colour |
Colour |
| Length in min's |
115 |
| International sales |
First Hand Films | Fritz Heeb - Weg 5 | CH - 8050 Zürich |
Switzerland | tel + 41 44 312 20 60 | fax + 41 44 312 20 80 | stories@firsthandfilms.com |
| Festival participation |
2009 Den norske dokumentarfilmfestivalen, Volda
2009 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
2009 Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund - New Nordic Films
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| Prizes received |
2009: National Film Award Amanda for Best Documentary
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| URL |
http://www.speranza.no |
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Director biography:
Thomas Robsahm has directed three feature films and several documentaries and short films.
As producer in his own company, Speranza Film, he has been responsible for, among others, Unni Straume's feature 'Thrane's Method' and a series of documentaries, among them Margreth Olin's award-winning films 'In the House of Angels', 'My Body' and 'Raw Youth' and Maria Warsinski's 'Crime and Punishment'. He was also on of the producers behind the short film series 'The Seven Deadly Sins'.
Tina Davis (born in Norway in 1970) has worked as a director and producer since 1997. She studied television and film at the University of Westminster from 1993 – 1996. After this she worked for NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) as a researcher, TV journalist and director. Since then she has made documentaries and other productions from about 16 different countries. From 2000 – 2002 she was head of Strix Television, which was Norway’s biggest TV production company at the time. Ms Davis has also been a documentary teacher at the International Film and Television School in Cuba during 2000 – 2003.
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