Expat Club would like to invite you for a screening of the award winning short documentary Frontera Invisible in the presence of Executive Producer Mihai Stoica. You are welcome to join us in our offices on Avenue Louise to view this superb documentary, which will be introduced by Mr. Stoica. There will be time for questions & answers. We are currently working on organising a debate afterwards with other experts in the field from the European Parliament and NGOs.
Frontera Invisible is the true story of communities trapped in the middle of the world’s longest war, in which big landowners’ rush for palm oil to produce ‘green’ fuel has displaced peasant farmers and indigenous people. It has destroyed natural habitats and concentrated land in the hands of the rich. One part environmental documentary and one part social research through victims’ testimonials, Frontera Invisible gives voice to the local communities that are fighting hard to reclaim their land while exposing the major pitfalls of biofuels policy.
In Colombia the government signed a peace deal with rebel group FARC which ended 60 years of armed conflict. A war that has displaced more people than the entire population of Denmark. Meanwhile, the government plans to keep planting palm to supply Colombia and Europe with ‘biodiesel’. Will peace return the land to its true owners or merely hand it over to Big Agribusiness? (source: Official website)
About Mihai Stoica
Mihai is a freelance photo and video journalist with a bachelor in Communication Sciences and master studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. His media work involves investigating and documenting social and environmental issues for mass-media and NGOs in Romania and internationally. Since 2007, Mihai has featured stories about the socio-environmental effects of coal and gold mining in Romania, the last dancing bears in Bulgaria and climate negotiations in Denmark, among others. In 2013, he also started working as an environmental campaigner and researcher on sustainable transport and bioenergy issues with 2Celsius – an environmental NGO that he helped co-found back in 2010 – which focuses on climate change related policies, media production and non-formal education.
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How to get there?
The Louise Center is on the intersection Avenue Louise / Chaussée de Vleurgat, right above the small Carrefour supermarket. The entrance is about 50 meters to the right.
* Trams 93/94 stop Vleurgat
* Tram 81 stop Bailli/Louise (+ 5 minutes walk)
* Tram 7 Louise/Legrand (followed by tram 93/94, or a 10 m minute walk)
* Buses 38/60 stop Vleurgat/Louise
* Bus 54 stop Bailli/Louise
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Expat Club would like to invite you for a screening of the award winning short documentary Frontera Invisible in the presence of Executive Producer Mihai Stoica. You are welcome to join us in our offices on Avenue Louise to view this superb documentary, which will be introduced by Mr. Stoica. There will be time for questions & answers. We are currently working on organising a debate afterwards with other experts in the field from the European Parliament and NGOs.
Frontera Invisible is the true story of communities trapped in the middle of the world’s longest war, in which big landowners’ rush for palm oil to produce ‘green’ fuel has displaced peasant farmers and indigenous people. It has destroyed natural habitats and concentrated land in the hands of the rich. One part environmental documentary and one part social research through victims’ testimonials, Frontera Invisible gives voice to the local communities that are fighting hard to reclaim their land while exposing the major pitfalls of biofuels policy.
In Colombia the government signed a peace deal with rebel group FARC which ended 60 years of armed conflict. A war that has displaced more people than the entire population of Denmark. Meanwhile, the government plans to keep planting palm to supply Colombia and Europe with ‘biodiesel’. Will peace return the land to its true owners or merely hand it over to Big Agribusiness? (source: Official website)
About Mihai Stoica
Mihai is a freelance photo and video journalist with a bachelor in Communication Sciences and master studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. His media work involves investigating and documenting social and environmental issues for mass-media and NGOs in Romania and internationally. Since 2007, Mihai has featured stories about the socio-environmental effects of coal and gold mining in Romania, the last dancing bears in Bulgaria and climate negotiations in Denmark, among others. In 2013, he also started working as an environmental campaigner and researcher on sustainable transport and bioenergy issues with 2Celsius – an environmental NGO that he helped co-found back in 2010 – which focuses on climate change related policies, media production and non-formal education.
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How to get there?
The Louise Center is on the intersection Avenue Louise / Chaussée de Vleurgat, right above the small Carrefour supermarket. The entrance is about 50 meters to the right.
* Trams 93/94 stop Vleurgat
* Tram 81 stop Bailli/Louise (+ 5 minutes walk)
* Tram 7 Louise/Legrand (followed by tram 93/94, or a 10 m minute walk)
* Buses 38/60 stop Vleurgat/Louise
* Bus 54 stop Bailli/Louise
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