Bristol Indymedia, in association with the Bristol Radical Film Festival, presents: BLOOD IN THE MOBILE plus director Q+A (tbc)
 
(Mon 2nd Feb/ 8pm / £4/3 but nobody refused for lack of funds)

We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side.

"A hardhitting documentary that shows us the appalling price paid in Africa to sate our obession for mobile phones." 4/5 stars (Guardian)

The minerals used to produce cell phones come from the mines in Eastern Congo, home to a civil war that human rights organisations claim is the bloodiest conflict since World War II. By buying these so-called conflict minerals and phones we therefore contribute to the financing of this war, which for the last 15 years has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people, and during which 300,000 women have been raped.

Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo, and exposes the extent to which contemporary technologies are needlessly perpetuating slavery and child labour in the world today. Director Frank Poulson will be introducing his film and taking a Q& A after the screening.

This screening is part of a series of promotional events leading up to the Bristol Radical Film Festival (27th Feb to 4th March), a week of screenings, workshops and debates culminating in a weekend of the best in radical film at The Cube cinema..

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