Blue Gold Makes a Splash at the Vancouver International Film Festival
Last week the feature documentary Blue Gold won the Audience Choice Best Environmental Film award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. And a special congratulations also goes out to Maude Barlow, whose impressive career recently led to her appointment as senior water advisor to the U.N. president!
Last week the feature documentary Blue Gold won the Audience Choice Best Environmental Film award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Based on Maude Barlow's and Tony Clarke's book "Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water," this film brings to the forefront the unethical dealings of corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments that are trying to control what little is left of the world's fresh water supply.
However, people are fighting back, trying to protect what is rightfully theirs and of their descendants. Their efforts range from lawsuits to revolutions, from local protests at schools to fighting it out at U.N. conventions, in the hopes that water is not reduced to being a commodity or a tool for manipulation. The film brings all this and more to light, not allowing anyone at fault to escape from blame.
The audience in Vancouver took notice, and we hope that the word keeps on spreading. Future showings of Blue Gold include the Planet in Focus Film Festival (October 22, 2008 in Toronto) and the Environmental Film Festival (March 22, 2009 in Washington, DC) – with hopefully more to come.
For more information, check out the Blue Gold website at http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com
- Sofia Baliño
