Sand Wars

Sand Wars
Directed by Denis Delestrac
Produced by Guillaume Rappeneau
Laurent Mini
Nathalie Barton
Written by Denis Delestrac
Narrated by Trevor Hayes
Music by Jean-Sébastien Robitaille
Cinematography Marc Martinez
Alam Raja
Edited by Michelle Hollander
Seamus Haley
Ibon Olaskoaga
Production
company
ARTE France
Distributed by PBS International
Green Planet Films
Release dates
  • May 20, 2013 (2013-05-20)
Running time
 75 minutes
Country France
Canada
Language English
French

Sand Wars is an epic eco-thriller by director Denis Delestrac and produced by Rappi Productions, La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse, InfomAction, Arte France, with the support of The Santa Aguila Foundation.

The film premiered at the Cinéma Publicis on the Champs-Elysées in 2013 and was first broadcast in May in France and Germany (Arte), where it became the highest rated documentary for 2013.[1] A Gold Panda Award winner, Sand Wars is distributed worldwide by PBS International.

Among many other outreach victories, the film inspired the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to publish a Global Environmental Alert in March 2014 titled "Sand, rarer than one thinks".[2]

Synopsis

By the end of the 21st century, beaches will be a thing of the past. That is the alarming forecast of a growing number of scientists and environmental NGOs. Sand has become a vital commodity for our modern economies: we use it in our toothpaste, detergents, and cosmetics, and computers and mobile phones couldn’t exist without it. Our houses, skyscrapers, bridges and airports are all basically made with sand: it has become the most widely consumed natural resource on the planet after fresh water. The worldwide construction boom fuelled by emerging economies and increasing urbanization has led to intensive sand extraction on land and in the oceans, with damaging environmental impacts. Sand Wars takes us around the world as it tracks the contractors, sand smugglers and unscrupulous property developers involved in the new gold rush, and meets the environmentalists and local populations struggling to reverse the threat to the future of this resource that we all take for granted.

Interviews

Festivals and awards

Official selections :

Awards :

Best movie - Inspiration Category

Gold Panda for Best Nature & Environment Protection Award

Golden Sun for Best documentary

2nd Prize - Welfare Education Category

Switzerland Greenpeace Prize

Environment Award

Official selection of the 10 finalist documentaries

Rockie Award for Best Environmental and Wildlife Program

Award for Best Documentary – Nature & Science Category

Nominated for Marine Science Category

Nominated for Panda Awards - Environment & Conservation Category

Winner: Environmental Award and Festival Honorable Mention

Winner: Soil Film Award

Winner: "Impact Prize" 2015

Winner: Best Environmental Film 2015

References

  1. ↑ Record d’audience pour « Le sable, enquête sur une disparition »
  2. ↑ UNEP "Sand, rarer than one thinks"
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