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 Yes-Fjnainoa, I completely agree with you. This is an important film to anyone concerned about not only the environment, but the charcoal people thems ... | Yes-Fjnainoa, I completely agree with you. This is an important film to anyone concerned about not only the environment, but the charcoal people themselves. There is no good news here, but we knew that. Powerful documentary. Can you believe that WOOD is used to heat KILNS for IRON? There has got to be a better way than this. Oh my God. Props to Jaman for bringing it onto it's platform.
Everybody who is anybody reviewed this film. Here follows a review from The Villiage Voice.
A relatively incendiary piece of anthro-outrage, Nigel Noble's The Charcoal People stations us on the edge of the Brazilian wilderness—the very edge, in fact, created by the eponymous migrant workers who earn their feeble livings by tearing down trees, burning them in kilns, and then selling the charcoal to steel factories. (The pig iron that results is used in manufacturing industries worldwide, particularly in car production.) The film splits its ire between the decimation of the landscape (the subindustry has already depleted a France-sized chunk of Brazilian forest, and the Amazon jungles are currently being leveled) and the dire life conditions of the workers themselves, most of whom are shockingly articulate. |
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