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Date
July 24, 2010
- Time 3:30 PM
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Price $10 General $60 Series Pass $8 Senior/Student (available only at the door)
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Katanga Business
Directed by Thierry Michel
Washington, DC Premiere
Belgium/ Congo I 120 min I French and Lingala with English subtitles
While many documentary films have investigated the impact of globalization on developing countries, few grab the viewer’s attention like Belgian filmmaker Thierry Michel’s Katanga Business. More like a suspense mystery than a documentary, and with a cast of characters that seem taken from a novel, Michel’s film shows the various players competing for control of the economic development of the diamond-rich Katanga region of Congo, and vividly illustrates how vast resource wealth is the bedfellow of desperate poverty.
“Katanga Business is not a biopic of a provincial African governor, photogenic as he is. It’s about globalization, capitalism, and economic colonialism. Thierry Michel turns Chinese wildcat investors, Belgian holdover industrialists, and Canadian ‘pension fund’ investors into a rich mix.” —Avuncular American
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