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Blood in the Mobile

Documentary

A documentary that looks at the dark side of the mobile phone industry.

More information on this production is available at bloodinthemobile.org.

The critical consensus

This is a valuable film which needs to be seen and which holds an uneasy truth that makes us all complicit.

****(*)Alan Bett, The Skinny, 20/09/2011

The valiant Paulsen tries hard for answers and gets some of them, too ,in this eye-opener of a film.

***(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 22/09/2011

Commendable--if flawed.

***(*)(*)Simon Kinnear, Total Film, 19/10/2011

Corporate tower blocks and corrupt Congolese mines do not make this gnarly doc easy to watch.

Shelly Jones, Little White Lies, 20/10/2011

We talk about conflict diamonds; maybe now is the time to talk about conflict mobile phones.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 20/10/2011

An instructive, quietly angry movie.

Philip French, The Observer, 23/10/2011

Frank Piasecki Poulsen's investigation is horrifying at times, but it's also fast-moving, funny and genuinely thrilling.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 23/10/2011

Poulsen has a lot of previous form with this kind of thing. His excellent previous outings have brought him face to face with media moguls and FARC guerillas and here again he does not disappoint, nor does he avert his gaze.

****(*)Paul Dale, The List, 09/11/2011


Features about Blood in the Mobile

Hard-hitting film exposes suffering of workers producing parts for our phones

Brian McIver, Daily Record, 23/09/2011

A shocking connection: film-maker uncovers Blood in the Mobile

Stephen Applebaum, The Guardian, 10/10/2011

Blood in the Mobile

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday November 25, 2011, until Sunday November 27, 2011. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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