Conflict Diamonds: A Hollywood Ending?
June 26, 2012
On a particularly rainy day I found myself re-watching Blood Diamond, the Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. It tracks the fate of a prisoner of war (Hounsou) who is separated from his family during the civil war in Sierra Leone. His path crosses with diamond smuggler DiCaprio, and they both end up …
Margin Call
March 22, 2012
Margin Call was the final film in this year’s series Doing the Business, a series designed to use the medium of film to encourage discussion and debate on social and ethical issues in business. It was the most mainstream of the films we have screened this year, with an academy award nomination for the screenplay …
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
March 13, 2012
Or officially POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. That’s for sponsorship reasons which will be made clear shortly. The Greatest Movie is the third movie in our annual Doing the Business film season, in partnership with the Broadway Cinema. Launched in 2011, The Greatest Movie is, narrowly, about product placement and, more broadly, …
China’s Three Gorges Dam an Expensive Lesson?
February 29, 2012
The prize-winning documentary “Up the Yangtze”, shown in Nottingham last night as the second event in the “Doing the Business film series organised by the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, is a heart-wrenching story of the sad fate of a peasant family forced to leave their home as it is flooded by the giant …
Up the Yangtze
Take a “Farewell Tour” up the Yangtze river on board a luxury cruise ship and marvel at the dramatic sights, sounds and cultures of China New and Old. Stand at the foot of the magnificent hydroelectric Three Gorges Dam – an icon of the Chinese economic miracle – and contemplate the sheer scale and speed …
Is there blood in your mobile?
February 27, 2012
Our annual film series Doing the Business opened with a striking documentary investigating the use of conflict minerals in the electronics industry supply chain. Following the screening Professor Jeremy Moon opened the discussion by outlining three key questions: Who is responsible for the problems that we witnessed in the Democratic Republic of Congo? One of …
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