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LAND: Hard-hitting trailer for feature documentary on foreign development in Nicaragua
Wow, it’s good to see someone taking this issue by the horns and giving it a good shake! Watch the LAND trailer from Canadian filmmaker Julian Pinder and Six Island Productions. The description reads:
“…American developers charge on, transforming jungle and beach into resorts, hotels, and gated communities. Unexpectedly, the former revolutionaries sweep back into power and re-claim the country. This modern day wild west erupts into a battle between former revolutionaries, angry locals, and foreign developers over the land beneath their feet. But progress marches on … Or does it?”
The trailer features everyone from Comandante Zero to Jimmy Carter to gringo developers and expats … this baby is going to ruffle some serious feathers on real-estate row in San Juan del Sur and Granada! It says the movie was short-listed for the Cannes Film Festival and will be released this summer 2010. Can’t wait….
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4 Responses to “LAND: Hard-hitting trailer for feature documentary on foreign development in Nicaragua”
i know many of the characters in this movie. i always enjoyed sandino el gringo in the trailer. more stories than i care to remember honestly. i lived in NI for 5 yrs total. 2 in SJDS. chris berry, Commandande Zero, many of the SJDS featured locals, pretty much all of the gringos including the cowherder who wants to move his cattle to the border, i’ve met most of ‘em. I love NI but if you expect to come here and exploit it, you will be slapped silly by the locals guaranteed. good people, smart people, tough people. It is their land and we need to respect that. Let them be. Many of my Nica friends (certainly not all but some) loved Ronald Reagan. I tell them are uninformed, Reagan, North, etc were disasterous as was Bush. You can not go all Sarah Palin on the Sandinistas and expect be percieved as rational. I love a good revolution. Viva sandino!! Viva Nicaragua!
how can i see this documentary
It looks to be an interesting film, but I’m not sure how balanced and/or neutral it’ll be from the short trailer I just saw. I know it was released in 2010, but I wonder if it talks about Ortega’s presidency over the past couple of years, the good, the bad and the ugly. My brief sense from the trailer is no.
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