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WG Film
WG Film (former Westman & Gertten AB) is a Swedish production company that produces national and international documentaries. The company is located in Malmö and was founded in 1994 by documentary filmmaker Lars Westman and journalist Fredrik Gertten. WG Film produces documentaries for broadcast and cinema. The early films of the company were often local stories with global relevance. With time, the films have become more and more international. Most notable films include ''PUSH'' (2019) about the global housing crisis, ''Bikes vs Cars'' (2015) on cycling and the car industry's control over city planning, '' Bananas!*'' (2009) on a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua as well as its sequel '' Big Boys Gone Bananas!*'' (2012) on Dole Food's lawsuit against Gertten, WG Film and the films' producer Margarete Jangård. The latest film produced by WG Film BREAKING SOCIAL (2023) explores global patterns of corruption and kleptocracy. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Westman
Lars Westman (born 27 September 1938 in Östersund) is a Swedish film maker and cartoonist. Life and work He studied art (Kursverksamheten) at Stockholm University in 1963, art and advertising at Beckmans Reklamskola, Stockholm, in 1964, and attended Swedish Television's producer school in 1969. He worked for ten years as a typographer, and has been involved in film-making for nearly 50 years, primarily for Scandinavian television. More than 280 of his films have been broadcast in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, and US, and via satellite by Art and the Discovery Channel. He has made three films with cinema releases in Scandinavia. His work has won prizes in Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, and Brazil. He was awarded a lifelong stipendium for Swedish filmmakers by the Swedish Ministry of Culture. One of his projects, a series entitled ''Around the World'', took him to 42 countries. He has lived in West Africa and made 20 films about struggle and culture in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Gertten
Fredrik Gertten (born 3 April 1956 in Malmö) is a Swedish filmmaker, producer and journalist, best known for documentaries investigating global patterns of kleptocracy, lobbyism, financialization and extractivism. His production company WG Film was founded in 1994 and is known for title such as ''Push'' (2019), ''Bikes vs Cars'' (2015) and ''Bananas*!'' (2009). Career in film As of recently Gertten's focus has been on global issues and injustices. In ''Breaking Social'' he examines global patterns of kleptocracy and corruption. The Dutch historian and philosopher Rutger Bregman is frequently featured in the film, as is the expert Sarah Chayes, amongst others. A recurring theme in the film is how the social contract has been broken by the ultra wealthy and powerful people in our society. Therefore, a new social needs to be constructed that rewards contributors to society and those that play by the rules. The film premiered at CPH:DOX in March 2023. The focus on global injustices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bananas!*
''Bananas!*'' is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP. The film was criticized by Dole for containing "patent falsehoods". After a screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2009, Gertten was sued for defamation by Dole on 8 July. The lawsuit was preceded by threats of legal action from Dole aimed against the LA Film Festival, which resulted in sponsors pulling support and the film being removed from competition. Dole dropped their lawsuit against Fredrik Gertten and ''Bananas!*'' on 15 October 2009. In September 2009, the Swedish parliament members Mats Johansson ( M) and Luciano Astudillo ( S) took the initiative of displaying the movie in the Parliament of Sweden, this being its premiere in Sweden. In late 2010 a court in Los Angeles decided in favor of the movie crew, making it possible to releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dole Food Company
Dole plc (previously named Dole Food Company and Standard Fruit Company) is an Irish- American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company is among the world's largest producers of fruit and vegetables, operating with 38,500 full-time and seasonal employees who supply some 300 products in 75 countries. Dole reported 2021 revenues of $6.5 billion. As of 2021, the company had approximately 250 processing plants and distribution centers worldwide in addition to of farmland and real estate. The company operates through four segments: Fresh Fruit (bananas and pineapples; about 35% of 2020 revenues); Diversified Fresh Produce in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; Diversified Fresh Produce in the Americas and other world regions (combined 37% of 2020 revenues); and Fresh Vegetables (29% of 2020 revenues). Dole grows and markets bananas, pineapples, grapes, berries, deciduous and citrus fruits, and vegetable salads. Dole operates a 13-vessel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
''Big Boys Gone Bananas!*'' is a 2011 documentary film, directed by Fredrik Gertten. The film is about how Gertten's film company was sued by Dole for the 2009 documentary film '' Bananas!*''. This lawsuit is a type of case known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP). Film ''Big Boys Gone Bananas!*'' focuses primarily on the lawsuit, rather than the subject of worker exploitation or mistreatment that was the focus of ''Bananas!*''. The film concerns events that began when Dole sent a cease-and-desist letter to the filmmaker, the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, and the festival’s sponsors, that alleged that ''Bananas!*'' was false and defamatory, though the film had not yet been screened. In June, a scathing review of ''Bananas!*'' appeared on the front page of the ''Los Angeles Business Journal''. The Los Angeles Film Festival removed the film from the competition and screened it separately as a "case study" rather than a documentary. Many critics saw t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The festival was established in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. The festival moved to nearby Park City, Utah, in 1981 and was renamed the US Film and Video Festival. It was renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. From its inception through 2025, the festival took place every January in Utah. In March 2025, it was ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South By Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has continued growing in both scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasted for 10 days with the interactive track lasting for five days, music for seven days, and film for nine days. There was no in-person event in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, Texas, COVID-19 pandemic in Austin; in both years there was a smaller online event instead. SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the conference SXSW EDU and the SXSW Sydney festival (from 2023, in Sydney, Australia) and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto. Beginning in June 2025, the inaugural South by Southwest London, SXSW London will also take place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Description IDFA is an independent, international meeting place for audiences and professionals to see a diverse (in form, content, and cultural background) program of high-quality documentaries. IDFA selects creative and accessible documentaries, which offer new insights into society. By 2009, IDFA had achieved the reputation of the most important doc fest. Every year in November, the festival takes place over the period of 11 days, in more than 40 venues around the city, welcoming an audience of 295.000 (2019), and a record number of documentary film professionals, as over 3500 gather for the festival, from more than 100 countries every year. The festival was initially held at the Leidseplein area in the centre of Amsterdam. It has since spread to a number of other locations, including the Tuschinski Theatre and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd European Film Awards
The 32nd European Film Awards were presented in Berlin, Germany, on 7 December 2019. Selection Feature The list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards. * ''I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians'' - director: Radu Jude (Romania/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria/Germany) * ''A Tale of Three Sisters'' - director: Emin Alper (Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece) * ''A Twelve-Year Night'' - director: Álvaro Brechner (Uruguay/Spain/Argentina/France/Germany) * ''A White, White Day'' - director: Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden) * ''An Officer and a Spy (film), An Officer and a Spy'' - director: Roman Polanski (France) * ''All Good (film), All Good'' - director: Eva Trobisch (Germany) * ''And Then We Danced'' - director: Levan Akin (Sweden/Georgia/France) * ''Bad Poems'' - director: Gábor Reisz (Hungary/France) * ''Beanpole (film), Beanpole'' - director: Kantemir Balagov (Russia) * ''By the Grace of God ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Film Database
The Swedish Film Database () is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute The Swedish Film Institute () (SFI) is a statutory body located in Stockholm, Sweden that supports the Swedish film industry. Founded in 1963, the institute is responsible for administering the annual Guldbagge Awards, and for managing the Swed .... It contains information about all Swedish films from 1897 onwards and foreign films that had their first cinema release in Sweden. It also provides many biographies of actors, directors, producers and others who have participated in Swedish films over the years. It is created with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The database comprises about 62,000 films (17,000 Swedish films) and 265,000 people. References External linksSwedish Film Database Swedish film websites Online film databases Databases in Sweden {{website-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Establishments In Sweden
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Charter, Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day. Events January * January 1 ** The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. ** Beginning of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. * January 8 – ''Soyuz TM-18'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. * January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. * January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
