PAST EVENT: Pig Business screening: CIJ investigative film week
21 Jan 2010As part of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Investigative Film Week, producer Tracy Worcester and associate producer Alastair Kenneil will discuss how to avoid libel and lawsuits when conducting investigations after a screening of their film Pig Business. The documentary charts the four-year investigation into the industrialisation of pig farming.
The film begins in the UK, where Worcester discovers how supermarket labels are an unreliable guide to how and where pork has been produced. She takes us on a journey to the USA, Brazil and Poland and visits the offices of corporate leaders, European bureaucrats and banks. She finds policies that support a farming system of poor quality, damaging to the environment and which pushes traditional farmers out of business.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 at 18.30
£5 full price; £4 concessions
Oliver Thompson Theatre
City University London
Northampton Square,
London EC1V 0HB
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Mike
Hi I’m working for Pig Business at the moment, should be a fascinating evening about the legal issues of documentary film making.
Since the film’s release the investigation and campaign into intensive pig farming has continued. Next week in fact (27th Jan) we have an event at the House of Commons showing clips from the film, to an audience of over 80 people from MPs to retailers to farming groups.
It’s an opportunity for them all to see the issues from the film and hear from experts about the impacts of factory farming and big business.
It should be a great event and shows how far investigative film can go with real time and passion. Check out our website for more info http://www.pigbusiness.co.uk and see you on the 2nd February