POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES
Shadow World
Director
Johan Grimonprez
Producers
Anadil Hossain
Joslyn Barnes
Cinematographer
Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Editors
Dieter Diependaele
Pedro Collantes
Per K. Kirkegaard
Sound
Bill Chesley
Contact
Wide House
09, rue Bleue
75009 Paris, France
Anais Clanet
+33 6 83 22 18 06
[email protected]
2016
United States, Denmark, Belgium
94 min
Color
Through the insights of whistleblowers, investigators, prosecutors, military and industry insiders SHADOW WORLD reveals how the international trade in weapons – with the complicity of governments,
their militaries and intelligence agencies, defense contractors, arms dealers and agents – fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracies and creates widespread
suffering. The film unravels a number of the world’s largest and most corrupt arms deals through those involved in perpetrating and investigating them. It illustrates why this trade accounts for almost 40% of all corruption in global trade, and how it operates in a parallel legal universe.
their militaries and intelligence agencies, defense contractors, arms dealers and agents – fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracies and creates widespread
suffering. The film unravels a number of the world’s largest and most corrupt arms deals through those involved in perpetrating and investigating them. It illustrates why this trade accounts for almost 40% of all corruption in global trade, and how it operates in a parallel legal universe.
Director
Johan Grimonprez's award winning films include dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) and Double Take (2009). Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale to Sundance, they have garnered several Best Director awards. They have also sold to major broadcasters worldwide. Johan’s curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums around the world. His works are part of the permanent collections of major museums.
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