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The Shadow of Gold

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Numéro de catalogue:  KC0111
Producteur:  Kensington Communications Inc.
Agences de production:  Kensington Communications Inc., Films à Cinq, ARTE France, CAPA Presse
Sujet:  , , Documentaire, Droit criminel, Économie, Étude des premières nations, Études de l'environnement, Études mondiales, Études mondiales canadiennes, Études sociales, Études sociales canadiennes, Événements actuels, Faits de société canadienne, Géographie, Géographie physique, Histoire, Histoire du Canada, Histoire mondiale, Ingénierie, Nature, Peuples autochtones, Politique, Politique canadienne, Problèmes mondiaux, Problèmes sociaux, Questions autochtones, Santé, Science
Langue:  Anglais
Niveau scolaire:  9 - 12, Post-secondaire, Adulte
Pays d'origine:  Canada
Année du droit d’auteur:  2019
Durée:  78:46


Demande de pré-visionnement

Do you wear a gold ring? Do you know where the gold in that ring comes from? 

The Shadow of Gold takes an unflinching look at how the world's favourite heavy metal is extracted from the earth. The film explores both sides of the industry: the big-time mining companies that dig deep and lop off mountaintops to extract gold from low-grade ore, and the small-time miners – an estimated 20 million people in the world's poorest nations – who extract gold by hand, often producing just enough to survive.

We meet back-country guides and entrepreneurs in Montana with deep suspicions about a proposed gold mine that could destroy their pristine wilderness, indigenous people in British Columbia struggling to recover from a spill of toxic mine waste, a woman miner in the Congo who is determined to keep her gold from feeding the flames of war, a brotherhood of Chinese miners, sick with black lung disease, fighting a state-owned gold mine for compensation, and an artisanal miner in Peru who knows that the mercury he uses to process gold is toxic and polluting, but feels he has no other option. And at the top the supply chain – in London, Dubai and Toronto – we show how conflict gold reaches unaware consumers and how gold-mining corporations are allowed to destroy ecosystems with impunity. 

The film reveals that glittering gold has a dark shadow. But it doesn't leave it there. We engage with engineers, scientists, and Fair-Trade advocates who work with miners to tackle gold's worst environmental and social problems. In an industrial-scale mine, we see new technology that replaces cyanide-based processing with a biological process that leaves no toxic waste. We watch small-scale miners benefit from technology that replaces mercury with an environmentally friendly process that actually produces more gold. We meet Fair Trade jewelers who have created their own self-managed, transparent supply chain that ensures consumers know exactly where their gold comes from.

 In the end, The Shadow of Gold isn't all about gold, or even its shadow. The film enters the lives and tells the moving stories of hard-working people who face danger just to go to work every day, in the hope of securing a better life for their families.

Educator's Resource Guide available in PDF format.

“… a very important film that should be seen.” – David Suzuki

“The Shadow of Gold tells very important stories about how we are all globally connected to gold, including the conflict and pollution that mining companies don’t like to talk about.” - Nuskmata Mack, Past Coordinator, First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining



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