Human Rights Competition

A Place without People

Year
2009
Country
Greece
Duration
55’
Director
Andreas Apostolidis

A film about how the local population of Tanzania has been evicted to make way for the creation of the world’s most famous nature reserves. Set in the spectacular Serengeti Park and the Ngorongoro crater, the film explores how the parks came to be and how Western perceptions about nature radically altered east African landscape and society. The film focuses on the people who “shouldn’t be there” not only because their voices are rarely heard but also because they are still being antagonised and excluded, while the tourist industry is rapidly depleting the area's natural resources.

Production
Yuri Averof, Anemon Productions, 5 Stisihorou St, Athens, 10674, Greece, + 30 210 7211073, [email protected] , www.anemon.gr
Sales:
Films Transit International, Jan Rofekamp, 252 Gouin Boulevard East Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3L 1A8, (514) 844 3358, [email protected] , www.filmstransit.com
Director
Andreas Apostolidis

Andreas Apostolidis is a well known crime novelist and documentary director in Greece. He has directed over 125 episodes of Stelios Kouloglou’s documentary series Reportage without Frontiers, an ERT current affairs strand which has won Best Documentary Award of the Year in Greece for six consecutive years.

Selected Filmography

The Death Match (2002), Network (2006), Place without People (2009)

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