Synopsis for the Film
Film: The Carbon Connection
Country: Brazil/UK
Director: Fenceline Films In Association with: Carbon Trade Watch
Duration: 40 min
Category: Considering Climate
As the world is being taught to obsess over barely-understood yet loosely-used concepts like ‘carbon footprints’ and ‘carbon trading’, The Carbon Connection focuses on two locations on two opposite sides of the world suffering under the side-effects of the ‘emission trade’. In San Jose, Brazil, a company uses the carbon fund money where major industrial polluters can ‘outsource’ their ‘environmental concern’ to plunder the rich diverse ecology and fresh water reserves into acres and acres of dead barren eucalyptus monoculture while all the way across in Scotland, an oil refinery with its ‘carbon bill’ already paid to the fund continues to ruin the land and life around it with a free hand. As the situations worsen, the only and unlikely solace and hope the inhabitants of these unfortunate lands can find is in connecting with each other through video letters. Together they try to unravel the questions facing them and together they will resist.
Distinctions
Maui Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival, Hobart, Tasmania
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
Native Spirit Festival
More Details
Fenceline Films is a small video group based in the UK. These pages will bring together several projects made with and by people living with the impacts of environmental and social injustice. Alongside this, Fenceline Films participatory video workshops aim to give individuals or local groups the skills to plan and make their own films.
Carbon Trade Watch was conceived at the end of 2001 and born in 2002, becoming the newest project of the Transnational Institute. With a focus on the emerging greenhouse gas markets, Carbon Trade Watch monitors the impact of pollution trading upon environmental, social and economic justice.
