For the 5th time CATAPA will be hosting the DocuLatino festival in which it draws attention at the sustainable management of natural resources. DocuLatino V runs from February 20th until March 15th and focuses on the problems of mining non-renewable resources like gold and oil, and its impact on the bio-fuel industry.
CATAPA presents - from February 14th until March 15th - DocuLatino IV, a Latin American documentary festival. This edition puts forward the problems of the gold mining and oil industry. From March 13th until March 15th DocuLatino takes place in Leuven.
Where? Auditoria Van Evenstraat - Van Evenstraat 2, Leuven - next to Pangaea
Price? Free entrance
Starts at 20h00
Program
March 13th
Where: Universiteit Antwerpen,Rodestraat 14, Antwerpen
Start: 19.30h
Entrance: Free
26/02/2013
In the heart of Conga (Peru, 2012, Isabel Guarniz, SP/sub ENG)
CATAPA presents - from February 14th until March 15th - DocuLatino IV, a Latin American documentary festival. This edition puts forward the problems of the gold mining and oil industry.
While big transnational corporations make lots of profits, countries in the Souts are left with a huge social and ecological mess. Local ecosystems are devastated, rural communities lose their farmland, toxic products poison the drinking water for years. The consequences are desastrous, and often irreversible.