DOXA 2009: Devil's Bargain trailer

Shelley Saywell, Canada, 2008, colour, video, 58 min

Small arms are the real weapons of mass destruction: killing more than half million people a year, spreading like a disease and destabilizing entire regions. Beginning in the gun markets of Somalia we travel within the region where guns are making life a misery of violence and fear. From France, to South Africa, from Bosnia to Moldova, we travel around the world to examine ways in which the guns slip from legal to illegal markets, via the so-called Grey Zone. From dealers to pilots to end-users, to the victims, we witness an unregulated trade in what has become the globalization of death. When 200,000 AK47 go missing from Bosnia stockpiles and are flown on illegal flights to who knows where, activists try to push initiatives to curb the trade at the UN. But the call for a treaty similar to the Land Mines Treaty is blocked and loopholes "large enough for Antonov-12s to fly through" continue to destabilize our world.

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Film & Animation

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• arms trade
• small arms
• globalization
• war
• conflict
• trade
• documentary films
• Shelley Saywell
• vancouver
• film festivals
• economic development
• third world