Blood in the Mobile
A project by Frank Piasecki Poulsen.
In co-production with Koncern TV- and Filmproduction (Denmark) and Chili Film (Denmark)
Web campaign: www.bloodinthemobile.org
We all love our mobile phones. They connect us to our family and friends. But they also connect us with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Inside our mobile phones are illegally mined minerals, minerals that fuel conflict, create child slavery, and support other severe human rights abuses in the DR Congo. “Blood in the Mobile” is a project about one of the most dangerous places on earth, about human courage, and above all about hope and the search for solutions. The web campaign http://www.bloodinthemobile.org/ is the main point of contact for all of us who want to take action.
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Blood in the Mobile
A project by Frank Piasecki Poulsen.
In co-production with Koncern TV- and Filmproduction (Denmark) and Chili Film (Denmark)
Web campaign: www.bloodinthemobile.org
Phones are financing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We love our cell phones, and the available selection of different models has never been broader. But the production of mobile phones has a dark, bloody side. Most of minerals used in the production of cell phones come from mines in the eastern DR Congo. The western world buys these so-called “conflict minerals” and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II. During the last 15 years, the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300,000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals.
If you ask the phone companies where their suppliers get their minerals from, none of them can guarantee that they aren’t buying conflict minerals from the Congo. The documentary “Blood in the Mobile” shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin mine, which is controlled by different armed groups. Children work there for days on end in narrow mine tunnels digging out the minerals that end up in our phones.
After visiting the mine, Frank Poulsen struggles to get to talk to Nokia, the world’s largest mobile-phone supplier. Frank Poulsen wants them to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby financing the war in the Congo. Nokia is unable give him that guarantee.
“Blood in the Mobile” is a project about our responsibility for the conflict in the Congo – and the question of corporate social responsibility.
Right from the start “Blood in the Mobile” was designed as a crossmedia campagne to involve the audience before and while shooting. The web campaign http://www.bloodinthemobile.org/ is the main point of contact. In the director’s video diary the audience can trace the filmic process and comment on issues and recent developments and issues. The connected Facebook page, which has already 10.000 supports, creates a platform for active participation for anyone who is interested. From stating one’s solidarity with a simple “Like”, supporting the project financially within the crowdfunding initative, up to founding support groups as an expression of one’s protest of ongoing violations of human rights in the Congo: There are many ways of possible commitment presented.
Director: Frank Piasecki Poulsen
Cinematographer: Adam Wallensten, Lars Skree, Frank Piasecki Poulsen
Soundmix / composer: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Stills: Mark Craemer
Graphics: Rasmus Cold
Colorgrade: Mikkel Aude
Producer: Ole Tornbjerg
Producer assistant: Kamilla Bruus
Co-producer, Germany: Christian Beetz
Executive producers: Anahita Nazemi, Jens Ulrik Pedersen
Production, Congo: Sekombi, Emmanuel Katya
Production assistant: Mark Mansfeld
Production manager, Denmark: Christina Pihl, Pia Nielskov
Production manager, Germany: Kathrin Isberner
Postproduction: Thomas Schougaard
Postproduction assistant: Casper Kjær
Editor: Morten Højbjerg, Mikael K. Ebbesen
Translation: Tolkegruppen
Dramaturgic consultant: Jens Arentzen
Communications consultant: Mikkel Skov Petersen
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Kino Abaton, Cinema for Peace Special Screening - Hamburg, Germany
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Filmhouse, Take One Action Film Festival - Edinburgh, Scotland
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Cumberland 2, Hot Docs - Toronto, Canada
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Windsor Cinema / True/False Film Festival - Colombia, USA
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Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge Film Festival - Cambridge, Great Britain
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Theater aan het Spui 1 / Amnesty International Movies that Matter - Den Haag, Netherlands
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Rich Mix - London, Great Britain
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Bloor Cinema, Hot Docs - Toronto, Canada
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Film Theatre, Take One Action Filmfestival - Glasgow, Scotland
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Kino Central, Cinema for Peace Special Screening - Berlin, Germany
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Lichtblick - Berlin, Germany
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Tuschinski 3 cinema, IDFA - Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Cinema - Münster, Germany
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Evangelical and Reformed Church of the Canton Schaffhausen - Löhningen, Switzerland
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Screen 1, Open City Doc Festival - London, United Kingdom
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European Parliament, One World - Brussels, Belgium
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Tuschinski 1 cinema, IDFA - Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Tuschinski 1 cinema, IDFA - Amsterdam, Netherlands
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City's, IKSV Film Festival - Istanbul, Turkey
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