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Welcome to Sodom /

Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones, LCD TVs, notebooks and the likes become useless and relatively soon end up in Agbogloshi (the largest electronic waste dump in the world, located near Accra, Ghana), where children and adolescents dismantle them in toxic smoke. About 6000 women, men and childr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Blackbox Film & Media (film production company,)
Other Authors: Krönes, Christian (Director, Producer), Schrotthofer, Roland, 1984- (Producer), Weigensamer, Florian, 1973- (Director, Screenwriter, Researcher), Kermer, Christian (director of photography.)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Vienna : Blackbox Film & Medienproduktion, [2018]
Subjects:
Electronic industries > Waste disposal > Ghana > Accra.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Contracting out > Ghana > Accra.
Electronic waste > Ghana > Accra.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects > Ghana > Accra.
Urbanization > Environmental aspects > Ghana > Accra.
Accra (Ghana) > Social conditions.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
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Summary:Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones, LCD TVs, notebooks and the likes become useless and relatively soon end up in Agbogloshi (the largest electronic waste dump in the world, located near Accra, Ghana), where children and adolescents dismantle them in toxic smoke. About 6000 women, men and children live and work here; they call it SODOM -- a "clean" business for some, a poisonous routine for others.
Item Description:Originally released as documentary in 2018.
Disc is accompanied by a booklet in English (1 unnumbered volume ; color illustrations) with credits and biographies of filmakers.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 unnumbered volume ; 26 cm).
Format:DVD; aspect ratio:16:9.
Awards:Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2018: Best Testimony on Nature [Award] (Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer)
Zurich Film Festival, 2018: Special Mention / Film in Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria (Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer).
Production Credits:Director of photography and editor, Christian Kermer.