Journey To The End Of Coal

Directed by Samuel Bollendorff & Abel Segretin

Producer: Arnaud Dressen, Guillaume Urjewicz

Music: Frederic Blin 

Genre: Documentary

Country: France (2007)

Tuesday March 17 at 2:00 PM

Screening in: SXGlobal

This event is part of the SXSW Festival

Journey To The End Of Coal is a web-documentary that lets you investigate the world of Chinese coal miners who risk their lives in state-owned and private coal plants.
At your own pace and will, you can get the story first hand from the locals if you manage to avoid the "friendly" officials who want to send you back to Beijing...

Director's Bio:

SamuelBollendorff was born in 1974.
Member of the Oeil Public photo agency, he looks at hospitals, schools, the police, and prisons, through a social lens, questioning the position of the individual within public institutions. After the book HOSPITAL SILENCE, his work evolved into a series of portraits presenting the social implications of AIDS. SILENCE AIDS develops Bollendorff's investigation into photography as a tool for political reflection: it won Hachette Foundation's special prize, and was duly noted by the Kodak Critics prize.
In 2005, during the whole year, Samuel Bollendorff works in the suburbs of Paris on a chronicle published during six months every week in the French daily newspaper Libération. Since 2006, thanks to a grant from the Culture department, he works on FORCED MARCH, a serie of reportages on the forgotten of the Chinese economical miracle. Exhibited in Visa pour l'Image 2007, this work has been nominated for the Visa d'or award.