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Canning Paradise

Director: 
Olivier Pollet
Country: 
Duration: 
90Min
Year of production: 
2012
Movies language: 
Cinematography: 
Olivier Pollet/ Tormod Spencer Austad/ Mathew Mytka
Editing: 
Alexandre Berman
Production: 
Fourth World Films
Synopsis: 

Decades of overfishing practices by the tuna industry have pushed this fish to the brink of extinction. Fifty years ago, the world caught 400 000 tonnes of tuna per year. That figure is now close to four million. In Papua New Guinea, the human impact is severe: aboriginal tribes see their fishing zone become sterile and their ancestral land confiscated to make way for multinational corporations. Does the ambition of these companies to turn Papua New Guinea into the tuna capital of the world mean greater prosperity for the region or more poverty and the loss of several generations of tradition?

 

Bio Director: 

Olivier Pollet is a young journalist and independent documentary filmmaker, passionate about human rights, the environment and development issues. His love for travelling and exploring different cultures started at a very young age. At 27, Olivier has lived in 6 different countries and travelled to more than 30 countries across Europe, North and Central America, the Middle-East, Asia and the Pacific. Canning Paradise marks his debut as a filmmaker

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