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At the Delta of Niger River in Nigeria, where a vast proportion of planet's oil is excavated, bomb attacks, abductions and murders form part of daily routine. The documentary portrays the image of "development", the way giant multinational petroleum companies would define it. Petroleum leaks in the River destroy flora and fauna, poison the food chain and consequently wipe out the 27 million indigenous people of the area - the Ijaws, the Ogoni and the Itsekiris.
  
The inhabitants dare to ask the self-evident, they demand an end to it. As a response they are massively and brutally attacked by special forces of the army and the police, which are armed by the oil companies. The camera meets at the river militia of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta-MEND- and presents to the world for the first time shattering images of their speed boat patrols and of their heavy weaponry.
The Delta of Niger is a lost paradise. As the documentary reveals, it is a place where despite the natural beauty, contemporary "globalized" hell prevails.
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Winner GRAND AWARD for the BEST FILM - EcoVision Festival 2007, Palermo - Italy, June 2007
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Winner BEST FEATURE FILM, X FICA, Goiania - Brazil, June 2008
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Winner FIPA D' ARGENT (Silver FIPA) - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz - France, January 2007
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Winner JUNIOR JURY AWARD - 5th International Film Festival and Forum Rights (FIFDH), Geneva - Switzerland, March 2007
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Winner SPECIAL MENTION - 10th Environmental Film Festival Cinemabiente, Torino - Italy, October 2007
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Winner SPECIAL MENTION - 7th International Film Festival Ecocinema, Piraeus - Greece, February 2008
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Official Selection at the 22nd Annual "Napa Sonoma" Wine Country Film Festival, California - USA, July - August 2008
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Official Selection at Movies That Matter Foundation- 10th Amnesty International Film Festival, Amsterdam & the Hague - The Netherlands, March 2008
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Official Selection at Human Rights Nights Film Festival, Bologna - Italy, April 2008
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Official Selection at the 23rd "Vues d' Afrique", Montreal - Canada, April 2007
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Official Selection at the Ecofilms, Rodos International Films and Visual Arts Festival, Rodos - Greece, June 2007
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Official Selection at the Athens International Film Festival, Athens - Greece, September 2006
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“Exandas”, by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, received an important distinction at the 13th Film Festival for the Environment, CinemAmbiente, which took place in the Italian city of Torino from the 1st to the 6th of June, and was attended by an estimated audience of 20,000.
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Prominent success for Exandas Documentary Series as the documentary “Dying in Abundance”, by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, wins the “Second Mention” prize in the “XII Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos”.
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New success for Exandas Documentary Series as the documentary ‘Life for Sale’ by Yorgos Avgeropoulos wins the first prize in the 6th edition of the prestigious Latin-American Independent Film and Documentary Festival.
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‘Gaza We Are Coming’ by Yorgos Avgeropoulos and Yiannis Karipidis has been awarded with the audience prize for the best Greek film with duration over 45 minutes.
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The rise of neo-Nazis in Russia is more than a fact! The biggest part of the world's neo-Nazis are today concentrated in Russia. Extremist ideas about racial purity and the extermination of immigrants, homosexuals, drug addicts and all the "useless pests that pollute the Russian White Race" find an ever more fertile ground in a population whose national pride was wounded during the years that followed the fall of the Soviet Union.
"The Pack of White Wolves" is a hair-raising documentary which records the deadly activities of Russian skinheads, the stories of their innocent victims and the terrible threat emerging at the North of Europe.
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Research Conducted by Georgia Anagnou, Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Meletis Pogkas / Website Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Graphics: Sakis Palpanas / A Small Planet Production for © NET 2007 - 2008
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 "Plain Old Greed", Exanda's new documentary film, is an "economic thriller" or, rather, a social horror movie which is timelier than ever. Through the saddening stories of those who lose their homes because of the savage bank raid emerges the famous "housing crisis" which torments the US economy and causes huge damage at a global level. However, what is more important is the unveiling of the logic of modern globalized economy and its "secret mechanisms". In other words, the money market's new way of making money... out of thin air!
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Director of Photography: Alexis Barzos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Research Coordinator: Angelos Athanasopoulos / Editing: Yiannis Biliris / Original Music: Yiannis Paxevanis / Graphics: Sakis Palpanas / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2007 - 2008 / World Sales: Small Planet (contact person): Anastasia Skoubri
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‘Ι can't say what the future of my country holds. The only thing I know is that month after month, week after week, day by day, hour by the hour, Organized Crime murders, mutilates bodies, occupies cities, gets hold of entire districts and puts into question not only political life and institutions, but life itself in Mexico. Mexican society is defenseless now.'
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer
In 2006, president Felipe Calderon declared war to the seven drug cartels that operate in the country.
Following a controversial resolution, he sent 40.000 soldiers to kill the Lernaean Hydra of Organized Crime. Ever since, the army gives battles on city streets...
Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Anna Prokou / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / Graphics: Sakis Palpanas / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2008 - 2009 / World Sales: Anastasia Skoubri
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 Can you imagine a water market? A market where owners of water stock would buy and sell, while others would profit on its price without needing it? What would life be like if all of the planet’s water resources, superficial or subterranean, the waters of rivers, lakes and glaciers, belonged to the private sector?
‘Life For Sale’ examines the biggest water market in the world, set up in Chile. Where the country’s water resources do not belong to the state but to private individuals and one company can own an entire river and possess a quantity of water as big as Belgium. A place where water has turned from a public good of life to property and a ‘water right’ can cost as much as a house.
Even in the Atacama desert, which is considered the driest place on the planet, the mining companies – big owners of Chile’s longest river, the Rio Loa – draw immense quantities and use valuable water to wash metals, thus condemning thousands of natives and farmers’ villages to thirst and poverty.
Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Produced by Manolis Filaktidis & Georgia Anagnou/ Research Coordinator: Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Anna Prokou / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / Graphics: Sakis Palpanas / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2009 – 2010 / World Sales: Anastasia Skoubri info(a)smallplanet.gr
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