By Paola Robles Duarte.
During a period of 5 years, the director and his team traveled around the globe interviewing experts, scientists, activists, government representatives and major companies in conflict with the privatization of water. The words of Irene Salina, director of FLOW, are illustrative of what he shot in her the need to carry out this project:
"One thing that became clear to me
was that the water is really a unifying element .
all do, we all want and above
anything else in the world,
water is what unites us all. "
"For the love of water" with all its cruelty exposed to different situations in the affected communities suffered from pollution and water privatization. Evidence clearly, through countless testimonies, damage and theft from the multinationals, supervised by the World Bank have made entire regions populated by millions of people deepening poverty and increasing mortality rates.
The constant feeling of being surrounded by flowing water, combined with all the time musicalización consubstantial with the seriousness of the topic, and images carefully selected to move the viewer, communicating each situation sublime, are great merits of the directors of photography and music, Pablo de Selva and Christophe Julien respectively.
"Flow" (For Love of Water) is an exuberant documentary that contains the journey to a submerged by the powerful reality that rarely comes out in the mainstream media: More than a billion humans, the sixth of the world's population lacks access to clean drinking water. More than two million children die every year from diseases contracted by drinking contaminated water. More people die from water pollution through that AIDS and wars. You need 30 billion dollars to ensure that the world has clean water and in 2007 spent three times more on bottled water.
says a few minutes into the documentary E. Williams Marks, author of "The holly order of water", "We know that the planet is a body full of life, because the water runs through it, between a continent and there are other veins and arteries running water. The water flows into the ocean, which is the heart of the earth, the ocean evaporates starting a new hydrological cycle, to fall back into the mountains and down again in the form of veins and arteries. Our planet is not only a huge body that circulate the water, which is what gives it life. We are like the surface of the planet, 70% water and 30% by mass, both have a heart, we have 60,000 kilometers of veins and arteries, like the earth recycles water, we have a water cycle within us. "
And further says: "After decades of research and millions of data, scientists admit that we are near the sixth mass extinction, the largest ever occurred in the history of the planet, the fifth was that of the dinosaurs" . This is the very posing of FLOW, no water, no life, this idea of \u200b\u200bindestructible unity between water and life on the planet, this similarity and the need for humanity while misuse and commercialization of water robs millions of goods as required. Throughout the documentary we hear from frogs that change sex to be chemically castrated by the use of pesticides, the female fish from the river Seine because male fish have become extinct in 5 years breaking the ecosystem of millions of very poor must pay large sums for access to drinking water, while the majors the free dry extract of whole regions of aqueducts, dams that displace communities to install water covering the graves of their ancestors and with them the history and culture of people becoming fertile areas unfit for cultivation and the possibility of a production-type sustainable.
"Who owns the water? Who decides it? Why the World Water Council, the World Bank and the pirates of the water companies themselves as global water commanders making decisions for us? Who chose them? "Question Maude Barlow, activist and author of" Blue gold "looking denatured try to show something as natural, because whoever controls the water, has the power.
The documentary takes us from Cochabamba (Bolivia) to Alwar (India), through South Africa, Australia or the United States. The struggles of the citizens against water privatization, mobilization against giants like Suez, Vivendi or Coca Cola or Nestlé Waters legal battles in Mecosta (Michigan) succeed with images that fail to reflect the terrible future that is very close if the human being does not change their behavior.
drinking water shortages in poor countries and what this means in everyday life, the World Bank's complicity with the theft of water by major water corporations throughout the world, people forced to drink stagnant water for not paying it when it was historically open access, water wars, conflicts that erupt when companies have been privatized water in some areas of Bolivia, South Africa and other oppressed by world powers in the hands of governments and accomplices. Police violence and the use of unsafe water causes a high mortality for these populations. The protracted conflict between the residents of Michigan and a Nestlé bottling plant, the questionable quality of tap water in some U.S. states, specialists say the Environmental Protection Agency does not regulate correctly 51 harmful pollutants in water, alert the severity of the pesticide atrazine, a toxic endocrine disruptor that can cause prostate cancer in humans and seriously alter hormone levels in animals. Its use is banned in the EU but not in the USA where and from where it is marketed. Lying and unscrupulous business of bottled water, among many other facets of serious conflict in the world by water.
At the end of the documentary team calls us to join the request made to the United Nations to incorporate the right to water. Article 31: "All individuals have the right to adequate drinking water for the welfare of the individual and his family, and nobody should be deprived of such access or quality of water by private interests" and exhorts us: "Add up all."
From here we can say that we join broadcasting, positioning, and demanding that water is the heritage of humanity and not the few, and no longer see FLOW.
Irene Salina:
Biography of the director of "Flow, for the love of water": Born in France, Irene Salina, began his career at 15 as a radio reporter in Paris, then worked in various production roles in many American films before writing and directing his first short film "See You on Monday." His first film, "Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim" (2000), is an award winning documentary that delves into the life of Judith Deim, who was born in San Luis, USA. "Flow, for the love of water" is his latest documentary, completed in 2008. With it participated in the Second Global Festival Dominican Republic: "Global issues, personal stories." This documentary, which has already been scheduled in locations around the world as "the water Inconvenient Truth," also participated in the official selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2008 and has won various prizes in other competitions.
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A documentary that reveals the naked truth about water as a nonrenewable resource that is in danger and in the hands of monopolies to the detriment of humanity.
"Thousands have lived without love, without water," This quote from WH Auden is one that introduces us to the next 93 minutes of a harrowing documentary from compelling testimony and data from developers provided to understand the issue and environmental policy that will be on center stage in the XXI century: the global water problem.
During a period of 5 years, the director and his team traveled around the globe interviewing experts, scientists, activists, government representatives and major companies in conflict with the privatization of water. The words of Irene Salina, director of FLOW, are illustrative of what he shot in her the need to carry out this project:
"One thing that became clear to me
was that the water is really a unifying element .
all do, we all want and above
anything else in the world,
water is what unites us all. "
"For the love of water" with all its cruelty exposed to different situations in the affected communities suffered from pollution and water privatization. Evidence clearly, through countless testimonies, damage and theft from the multinationals, supervised by the World Bank have made entire regions populated by millions of people deepening poverty and increasing mortality rates.
The constant feeling of being surrounded by flowing water, combined with all the time musicalización consubstantial with the seriousness of the topic, and images carefully selected to move the viewer, communicating each situation sublime, are great merits of the directors of photography and music, Pablo de Selva and Christophe Julien respectively.
"Flow" (For Love of Water) is an exuberant documentary that contains the journey to a submerged by the powerful reality that rarely comes out in the mainstream media: More than a billion humans, the sixth of the world's population lacks access to clean drinking water. More than two million children die every year from diseases contracted by drinking contaminated water. More people die from water pollution through that AIDS and wars. You need 30 billion dollars to ensure that the world has clean water and in 2007 spent three times more on bottled water.
says a few minutes into the documentary E. Williams Marks, author of "The holly order of water", "We know that the planet is a body full of life, because the water runs through it, between a continent and there are other veins and arteries running water. The water flows into the ocean, which is the heart of the earth, the ocean evaporates starting a new hydrological cycle, to fall back into the mountains and down again in the form of veins and arteries. Our planet is not only a huge body that circulate the water, which is what gives it life. We are like the surface of the planet, 70% water and 30% by mass, both have a heart, we have 60,000 kilometers of veins and arteries, like the earth recycles water, we have a water cycle within us. "
And further says: "After decades of research and millions of data, scientists admit that we are near the sixth mass extinction, the largest ever occurred in the history of the planet, the fifth was that of the dinosaurs" . This is the very posing of FLOW, no water, no life, this idea of \u200b\u200bindestructible unity between water and life on the planet, this similarity and the need for humanity while misuse and commercialization of water robs millions of goods as required. Throughout the documentary we hear from frogs that change sex to be chemically castrated by the use of pesticides, the female fish from the river Seine because male fish have become extinct in 5 years breaking the ecosystem of millions of very poor must pay large sums for access to drinking water, while the majors the free dry extract of whole regions of aqueducts, dams that displace communities to install water covering the graves of their ancestors and with them the history and culture of people becoming fertile areas unfit for cultivation and the possibility of a production-type sustainable.
"Who owns the water? Who decides it? Why the World Water Council, the World Bank and the pirates of the water companies themselves as global water commanders making decisions for us? Who chose them? "Question Maude Barlow, activist and author of" Blue gold "looking denatured try to show something as natural, because whoever controls the water, has the power.
The documentary takes us from Cochabamba (Bolivia) to Alwar (India), through South Africa, Australia or the United States. The struggles of the citizens against water privatization, mobilization against giants like Suez, Vivendi or Coca Cola or Nestlé Waters legal battles in Mecosta (Michigan) succeed with images that fail to reflect the terrible future that is very close if the human being does not change their behavior.
drinking water shortages in poor countries and what this means in everyday life, the World Bank's complicity with the theft of water by major water corporations throughout the world, people forced to drink stagnant water for not paying it when it was historically open access, water wars, conflicts that erupt when companies have been privatized water in some areas of Bolivia, South Africa and other oppressed by world powers in the hands of governments and accomplices. Police violence and the use of unsafe water causes a high mortality for these populations. The protracted conflict between the residents of Michigan and a Nestlé bottling plant, the questionable quality of tap water in some U.S. states, specialists say the Environmental Protection Agency does not regulate correctly 51 harmful pollutants in water, alert the severity of the pesticide atrazine, a toxic endocrine disruptor that can cause prostate cancer in humans and seriously alter hormone levels in animals. Its use is banned in the EU but not in the USA where and from where it is marketed. Lying and unscrupulous business of bottled water, among many other facets of serious conflict in the world by water.
At the end of the documentary team calls us to join the request made to the United Nations to incorporate the right to water. Article 31: "All individuals have the right to adequate drinking water for the welfare of the individual and his family, and nobody should be deprived of such access or quality of water by private interests" and exhorts us: "Add up all."
From here we can say that we join broadcasting, positioning, and demanding that water is the heritage of humanity and not the few, and no longer see FLOW.
Irene Salina:
Biography of the director of "Flow, for the love of water": Born in France, Irene Salina, began his career at 15 as a radio reporter in Paris, then worked in various production roles in many American films before writing and directing his first short film "See You on Monday." His first film, "Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim" (2000), is an award winning documentary that delves into the life of Judith Deim, who was born in San Luis, USA. "Flow, for the love of water" is his latest documentary, completed in 2008. With it participated in the Second Global Festival Dominican Republic: "Global issues, personal stories." This documentary, which has already been scheduled in locations around the world as "the water Inconvenient Truth," also participated in the official selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2008 and has won various prizes in other competitions.
www.riobravo.com.ar
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