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Angad Bhalla, India/Canada, documentary, 22 min., 2003
(Hindi and English with subtitles)
 Why for the past eight years, has the low caste Adivasi community in Kashipur India resisted a proposed mineral development project by Utkal Alumina International Ltd. (UAIL), in part backed by ALCAN? Distrusting government assurances that the development will save them economically, they only see the devastating outcome in Dhamanjodi a neighbouring town with a similar aluminum plant. Resistance to the project in December 2000 led to the murder of three local activists.
This film calls attention to the strong-arm of corporate globalization and those complicit in the dispossession of the world’s most destitute populations.
Angad Bhalla is a Canadian filmmaker who went to India to shoot a film on a Coca-Cola plant in Kerala. But the Kashipur incident and the story of the Adivasi movement against the aluminium industry made him focus on the resistance.
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