The Center for Research and Documentation Chile-Latin America e.V. (FDCL) is film partner for the documentaries “Tambogrande - Mangos, Mining, Murder” and “Choropampa - The Price of Gold” (both directed by Stephanie Boyd and Ernesto Cabellos).
The FDCL is an information and communication center for people and groups who wish to learn more about Latin America or get involved with Latin America related issues. It has been in existence since 1974 and is well-known far beyond the borders of Berlin.
Advocacy for political, economic, social and cultural human rights has always been at the heart of FDCL’s work. For the past thirty years, the FDCL has concentrated its efforts on promoting solidarity with Latin America through development-related educational, awareness-raising, and lobbying campaigns in Germany. The organization also does public relations work, seminars, and policy development and advocacy.
Various Latin American-oriented projects, political initiatives, international committees, migrant groups and media projects work under the auspices of the FDCL. The Center’s archive has documented and offered critical perspectives on the social, economic and political development in Latin America. It also casts light on the relationship between that region and countries in the ‘global North’. Film as a visual medium has been an important part of our work since the 1980’s. FDCL has been partners of the One World Film Festival in Berlin for many years, and organizes its own film events and film series on relevant topics.
Homepage: www.fdcl-berlin.de
Films presented by FDCL
Choropampa – The Price of Gold
Price: € 3.45
This is the story of a majestic Andean paradise - lost after a devastating mercury spill by the world’s richest gold mining corporation. The US-owned mine says the situation is under control but the filmmakers encounter a starkly different reality.
Tambogrande – Mangos, Murder, Mining
Price: € 3.45
The brave men and women of Tambogrande in Peru take on corrupt politicians and the global mining industry in an epic tale of ordinary people rising to heroic deeds to save their land and livelihood.
New articles in the FDCL-Blog
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“Long ago the Spanish used weapons to kill our ancestors and take our wealth. Now they only need to contaminate us and take our wealth from under our noses.”, Julia Carrasco, farmer, Choropampa
Dear friends,
On June 2nd, 2000, a truck from South America’s largest gold mine spilled 151 kilograms of liquid mercury, contaminating three villages in Peru’s northern Andean mountains. The mining company [...]
