Party: Hackney Green Party Presents: Under The Dome - Free Screening!
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Date: 20.03.2016 18:30
Address: 1 Richmond Rd, Dalston, London, United Kingdom | show on the map »
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Under the Dome - Banned by the Chinese Government. Presented by the Hackney Green Party
Sunday 20 March, upstairs at Passing Clouds - gather from 6.30pm, movie starts at 7pm.
Under the Dome is a 2015 self-financed, Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It was viewed over 150 million times within three days of its release.
Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits, has been compared with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies, steel producers and coal factories, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters.
Despite demonstrating the failure of China's regulations on pollution, the Chinese government at first did not censor the film. Instead, the People's Daily reposted the film alongside an interview with Chai, while Chen Jining, the recently appointed minister for environmental protection, praised the film. However, within a week, the Communist Party’s publicity department confidentially ordered the film to be removed. An employee of China Business News was suspended for leaking the order.
The screening will be followed by a drinks and a discussion of the issues raised by the film.
Free Entry! (Suggested donation £3)
https://hackney.greenparty.org.uk/
www.passingclouds.org
1 Richmond Road E8 4AA
