http://global-culture.org/hot-docs/ Sustainable, Memorable, Livable Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:40:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://global-culture.org/hot-docs/comment-page-1/#comment-24759 Global Culture » the big sellout Mon, 14 May 2007 02:59:48 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/03/27/hot-docs/#comment-24759 [...] Directed by Florian Opitz, this documentary about the real consequences of privatization was my favorite at the recent HotDocs. Its biggest accomplishment is to reveal the characters affected by globalization, thus humanizing the problem again. Making it clear that it is not about statistics or economics. It is about the people that have their lives affected in such a way that many of them are robbed of their most essential rights. To do this he recruited a small group of local heroes battling with the consequences of privatization in very different ways: a South African hacking the electrical system to give power to the poorest, an English train driver calling out the mess created by the British government when they privatized the rail system, a Philippine mother struggling to keep his son alive in the middle of a health system falling apart, a group of citizens in Bolivia fighting against privatization of their water. If just a dozen of people had the insight and courage of these individuals in every city, the world would be such a different place. [...] [...] Directed by Florian Opitz, this documentary about the real consequences of privatization was my favorite at the recent HotDocs. Its biggest accomplishment is to reveal the characters affected by globalization, thus humanizing the problem again. Making it clear that it is not about statistics or economics. It is about the people that have their lives affected in such a way that many of them are robbed of their most essential rights. To do this he recruited a small group of local heroes battling with the consequences of privatization in very different ways: a South African hacking the electrical system to give power to the poorest, an English train driver calling out the mess created by the British government when they privatized the rail system, a Philippine mother struggling to keep his son alive in the middle of a health system falling apart, a group of citizens in Bolivia fighting against privatization of their water. If just a dozen of people had the insight and courage of these individuals in every city, the world would be such a different place. [...]

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