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Growth for some and patience for others. We see them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where this documentary was rolled in April 2013. The movie deconstructs the relationship between the local people and the mining industry. While copper and cobalt are extracted from the mines to feed the globalized economy, Congolese cough. The contaminated wind flows like the well-being expectations of the Congolese people.
Raf Custer is an historian and a journalist. He also works as a researcher for the Research Group for an Alternative Strategy (GRESEA). For 30 years, he has been making reports about people whom take their fate into their own hands. He is the author of Blinde Cargo, De Verstekelingen van de Elise (1996) and co-author of Média-activisime: Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media (2004), and he recently published a work about mining industry: Grondstoffenjagers (EPO, 2013). It was also edited in French as Chasseurs de matières premières (Couleurs livres, Investig’action, Gresea, 2013).
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