Shadow World
World Premiere

Shadow World

Spotlight
| USA, Denmark, Belgium | 94 MINUTES | Arabic, English, Spanish | English subtitles
Documentary
Haliburton may be the shining example of an out of control arms industry, where the profit is billions of dollars and the loss is human lives. In Shadow World, based upon the 2011 book by Andrew Feinstein, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, there are other weapons manufacturers, world leaders, arms dealers, military leaders, and behind-the-scenes movers that come under director Johan Grimonprez's (Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) scrutiny in an eye-popping assemblage of news and archival footage. Accompanying the images are comments from Feinstein, a slippery arms dealer, former New York Times writer Chris Hedges, and New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, and other once-willing participants in the business who decided to speak out. Grimonprez spares no one to expose a shadow world of corruption, slush funds, drones, illicit bed partners, and a whole lot of lies and greed from the early 80s up to the present. The aim is to perpetuate war in order to generate more cash, no matter what the expense.

—Brian Gordon

Cast & Credits
Directed by
Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez’s films include dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) and Double Take (2009). Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale to Sundance, they garnered several Best Director awards, the 2005 ZKM International Media Award, a Spirit Award and the 2009 Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Director
Johan Grimonprez
Screenwriter
Andrew Feinstein
Producer
Joslyn Barnes, Anadil Hossain
Editor
Per K. Kirkegaard, Pedro Collantes, Dieter Diependaele
Associate Producer
Burton Ritchie, Harbor Picture Company
Cinematographer
Nicole MacKinlay Hahn
Executive Producer
Bertha Foundation, Abigail Disney, Danny Glover, Driss Benyaklef, Sally Jo Fifer, Wilbur Leguebe
Composer
Karsten Fundal
Co-Producer
Signe Byrge Sørensen, Emmy Oost, Onomatopee Films, Final Cut for Real
Co-Executive Producers
David Menschel, Michael J. Zak, Donald Rubin, Jodie Evans, Susan Rockefeller, Matthew Palevsky
In Association With
Bertha Foundation, Fork Films, Vital Projects Fund, ITVS, RTBF, DR, Danish Film Institute, BritDoc Circle, Zap-o-matik
Story by
Andrew Feinstein, Johan Grimonprez
Based on the book by
Andrew Feinstein
Cast
Andrew Feinstein, David Leigh, Vijay Prashad, Jeremy Scahill, Lawrence Wilkerson, Chris Hedges, Robert Fisk, Trita Parsi

Contacts
International Sales Contact
Anais Clanet
WIDEHOUSE
Paris, 75009
Phone: +33 15 395 2441
ac@widehouse.org
US Sales Contact
Anais Clanet
WIDEHOUSE
Paris, 75009
Phone: +33 15 395 2441
ac@widehouse.org
Print Source
Patrizia Mancini
WIDEHOUSE
Paris, 75009
Phone: +33 1 53 95 04 64
pm@widehouse.org
Press Contact
Monica Delamater
Falco Ink
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 445 7100
monicadelamater@falcoink.com
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