Event

Join us for the next screenings in the No Mud, No Lotus series, a collaboration with Louverture Films that seeks to generate discussions about cinema as a strategy of complexity and plurality and as a resistance to constructed realities.

Join us for a special screening of Shadow World (2016), a film directed by Johan Grimonprez that reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade. The screening will take place on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 from 6-9pm at Slought. It will be followed by a conversation with Corruption Watch UK founder Andrew Feinstein. This event is presented in collaboration with Louverture Films and produced by Slought. It is presented in partnership with the School of Social Policy & Practice and with the support of the Cinema & Media Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Based in part on Feinstein’s globally acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, Grimonprez’s film reveals how the international trade in weapons – with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents – fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering.

This event is free and open to the public, however registration is requested. Please plan to arrive early as registering does not guarantee you a seat. Seating is first come, first served.