A Plastic Surgery

Every second, another ten tons of plastic is produced. 10% of all plastic produced ends up in the oceans, leading to predictions that, by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea. Faced with this global scourge, more and more businesses are promising to recycle, including the Coca-Cola Company, a group that sells 4000 plastic bottles around the world every second. Can we depend on the promises made by these multinationals? And is recycling the solution?

Director: Sandrine Rigaud
Producer: Paul Moreira, Luc Hermann, PREMIERES LIGNES TELEVISION
Documentary, France, 2018
52:00 min

Sandrine Rigaud is a French investigative journalist. She directed feature length documentaries for French television and investigated different corporate sectors while working at Première Lignes Télévision. Her documentaries for the highly reputed inquiry magazine Cash Investigation (French national TV) focused on forced labour in Uzbekistan, « Big food » or plastic. Her films have been shortlisted or awarded in many festivals (DIG Awards, Europa Prize, Fipadoc, FIGRA, Seoul Eco Festival…).

For her reports, she worked on many fields such as Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Qatar or Tunisia after the Arab Spring. Her latest inquiry about « ghost workers of the gig economy » has been broadcast on French TV in September 2019. From 2002 to 2010, she worked as a political journalist for French national TV and she wrote a book about French socialist party that was published in 2008 (PS : Coulisses d’un jeu de massacre)

She graduated from Sciences Politiques (Paris) and the « Centre de Formation des Journalistes » in Paris and studied European Institutions at the London School of Economics. She teaches in Sciences Po journalism school. Born in Egypt, she lived 15 years in the Middle East and is fluent in Arabic.

sandrine rigaud

VERSCHOBEN AUF HERBST

20MINMAX SPECIAL

2. April 2020 um 20 UHR
Ort: AUDI PROGRAMMKINO

20MINMAX SPECIAL

Movies

  • A Plastic Surgery

    Every second, another ten tons of plastic is produced. 10% of all plastic produced ends up in the oceans, leading to predictions that, by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea. Faced with this global scourge, more and more businesses are promising to recycle, including the Coca-Cola Company, a group that sells 4000 plastic bottles around the world every second. Can we depend on the promises made by these multinationals? And is recycling the solution?...

  • Lucky Fellow

    A short film portrait of the Berlin artist Kolja Kugler, who builds sculptures and robots from scrap....

  • Unravel

    Unravel  follows waste clothing on a journey across India, revealing how Western consumption habits are seen on the other side of the globe. Reshma, a young and perceptive worker in a textile recycling mill, dreams of travelling to the countries the cast off clothes are from. While Reshma and other women work, they construct an image of the West that the clothes spark in their imaginations, and share the rumours that travel with them. The film is based on the research of anthropologist Dr. Lucy Norris....