Curse of Copper, The

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Jenny Sharman
England, documentary, 2006
34 mins. (MiniDV)

A Canadian mining company is currently threatening one of the world's biological hotspots - a pristine cloud forest in the Andes of Ecuador. The film investigates the impact this company is having on the local people as they fight for the forest and their rights to an alternative path of development.