[imc-auckland-video] Screening video - Bhopal

[mandy.scott at paradise.net.nz]

See below possible vid for screening. Chloe and Geraldene do you have any
material for screening? does anyone??



 1. *New Release about Bhopal Disaster* LITIGATING DISASTER 
 

The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster was marked December 3, 2004 by 
events around the world. The new release LITIGATING DISASTER was shown at 
several of these events to audience acclaim. Now, this most recent film 
from veteran filmmaker Ilan Ziv is available on VHS and DVD (with scene 
selections).

LITIGATING DISASTER
A Film by Ilan Ziv

December 3, 1984. Bhopal, India. The biggest and deadliest chemical 
disaster of all time. Had the disaster occurred in the developed world, 
heads would have rolled, prison sentences would have been served. But it 
didn't happen in the West, but in this Indian city. Nearly twenty years 
later the ordeal isn't over, justice has not been done.

About midnight on December 3 huge amounts of toxic gas leaked from the 
Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, poisoning hundreds of thousands 
of people, and killing tens of thousands. Today, hundreds of thousands of 
people still suffer, but no court of law anywhere in the world has ever 
held Union Carbide or any of its officers responsible for what happened 
that night. Why has the case been left to rot in the backwaters of the 
legal system without delivering justice to the victims?

The powerful new film LITIGATING DISASTER explores how Union Carbide 
successfully manipulated both the U.S. and the Indian legal systems against 
each other. Featuring, Rajan Sharma, a young Indian-American lawyer, the 
film follows the case he brought on behalf of the victims in front of the 
Federal District Court in New York.

Constructed as Sharma's case as presented to fictitious jurors, LITIGATING 
DISASTER takes the viewers on a riveting cinematic investigation; 
presenting the compelling evidence assembled against Union Carbide 
including unique, never before seen documents unearthed through prolonged 
legal struggles, exclusive interviews with Union Carbide former officers, 
powerful archival material, and scenes filmed in and out of the abandoned 
plant.

As the story unfolds, the film makes it clear the real culprit is the lack 
of any international law or tribunal to govern the activities of 
multinational corporations. Or, as Sharma puts it to the imaginary 
jurors, "The consequences of leaving something like Bhopal un-addressed, 
creating this kind of vacuum in the legal systems of the world for impunity 
for these kind of multinational corporations for this type of conduct means 
that there is a certain inevitability of this kind of tragedy recurring 
again and again until somebody has the sense to say that just because this 
happened in the Third World or in a developing country does not mean we do 
not have to take it seriously."

<http://frif.com/new2004/lit.html>CLICK HERE for more info on LITIGATING 
DISASTER

52 minutes / color / 2004 / Order # VNF05-01
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