Film: SHADOW WORLD

Ruskin House Film Screen

Based on the book by Andrew Feinstein, this important documentary exposes the corruption and enormous damage resulting from the arms trade.

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SHADOW WORLD - Inside the Global Arms TradeThis important documentary feature, directed by Johan Grimonprez, exposes the appalling human cost of international arms dealing. It is based on the acclaimed book The Shadow World - Inside the Global Arms Trade (Penguin books, 2012) written by Andrew Feinstein (founder of Corruption Watch UK, and a former South African ANC MP) who has investigated the global arms trade for over twenty-five years. Andrew has kindly agreed to hold a Q&A session in person after our screening.Contributors to the film include whistleblowers, investigative journalists, prosecutors, military and industry insiders, along with interviews given by senior politicians. It explains how the international trade in weapons fosters corruption, undermines democracy, determines economic and foreign policies and spreads suffering around the world. Complicit in all this are government elites, military and intelligence agencies, defence contractors, arms dealers and agents.Examining some of the largest corrupt arms deals, it reveals they account for almost 40% of all corruption in world trade. Shadow World highlights the real costs of war; how the arms trade drives it; and how weapons are turned against citizens of liberal democracies, reducing security for us all.Positive alternatives are presented through the experience of a peace activist and war correspondent, as well as the voice of Eduardo Galeano reading selections from his stories.In 1961, US President Dwight Eisenhower issued a prescient warning in his farewell broadcast to the nation: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."UK | 2016 | 94 minsSee OFFICIAL FILM TRAILER here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbBLk5EX6Y" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbBLk5EX6Y" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbBLk5EX6Y</a>+Andrew Feinstein on his book: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG09qjWYwuk" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG09qjWYwuk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG09qjWYwuk</a>

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