Transparency International, ECOCINEMA and BRITDOC are proud producers of FILMS FOR TRANSPARENCY –Anti-Corruption Film Festival at the 17th IACC.
With a carefully curated international program that is both critical, proactive, relevant and newsworthy, FILMS FOR TRANSPARENCY amplifies the human stories to the issues tackled within the IACC agenda. Through 16 screenings FILMS FOR TRANSPARENCY aims to open both eyes and hearts to what is going on in other countries and under our very noses.
DIRECTORS: Dylan Williams / Erik Pauser LENGTH: 90 min. YEAR: 2016 LANGUAGE: English SPEAKERS: Patrick Alley (Global Witness), Clare Rewcastle Brown (Sarawak Report), Lena Hendry (KOMAS)
The Borneo Case is a unique story filmed over 25 years and tells the epic tale of how the rainforest, home of the last nomads was stripped of its natural resources. It reveals how billions of dollars of illegal profits solicited by the Chief Minister of Sarawak State in Malaysia were money laundered with the assistance of the largest global banks into offshore accounts and property portfolios all over the world. The case was labelled as the largest environmental crime of the century.
Since co-founding Global Witness and posing as a timber buyer in Global Witness's first investigation into the Thai Khmer Rouge timber trade in 1995, Patrick has taken part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe and in subsequent advocacy activit... Read More →
