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Open Pit| 1hr : 12mins
Director: Gianni Converso | Producer: Daniel Santana / Gianni Converso
Focus Years: 2011 | Country: Canada
Subject Tags: americas, globalization, indigenous rights, peru, resources
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
In the heart of Cajamarca, Newmont Mining Corporation operates the Yanacocha Gold Mine, one of the largest Open Pit mining operations in the world. Using the cyanide leach process, Newmont Mining has come to define “dirty gold” for a generation of Campecinos – the indigenous people who have lived at the top of the Peruvian Andes since the Inca civilization. Faced with devastating mercury pollution, heavy metals and acid mine drainage, the people of Cajamarca fight a desperate battle to defend their water resources, their families – and their way of life. Backed by money from the International Finance Corporation and The World Bank, Newmont Mining enforces their business model through corruption, intimidation and violence. Open Pit is a tour de force of investigative journalism and guerilla filmmaking that reveals the vicious face of “dirty gold” in Peru.
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