The Shadow World
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THE SHADOW WORLD is a feature documentary that explores the international arms trade, the only business that counts its wins and losses in human lives.
Johan Grimonprez
Director
Artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his documentary film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), a collaboration with author Don DeLillo that tells the story of air hijackings since the 1970s and how these changed news reporting. With its premiere at Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel in 1997, the film eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11th and analyzed compellingly how the media participates in the construction of our perceived reality. In 2009, Grimonprez made DOUBLE TAKE, which targets the global rise of ‘fear-as-commodity’. It premiered at Sundance and Berlin, and traveled the international film festival circuit, winning several Best Director awards, the Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi and the New Media Grand Prize in LA. His film and curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Hammer Museum (LA), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich) and MoMA (NY). His works are part of the permanent collections of numerous major museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Kanazawa Art Museum (Japan) and Tate Modern (London). In 2011, Hatje Cantz Verlag published a reader on his work entitled “It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards” with contributions by Jodi Dean, Thomas Elsaesser, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Slavoj Žižek. Grimonprez divides his time between Brussels and New York, where he now lectures at the School of Visual Arts. In 2012, Cinema Scope named him one of the “Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50” in the world.
Joslyn Barnes
Producer
Joslyn Barnes is a writer and producer. Barnes has executive produced or produced since co-founding Louverture Films with partners Danny Glover, Susan Rockefeller and Bertha Foundation, are TROUBLE THE WATER, BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975, and CONCERNING VIOLENCE.
Anadil Hossain
Producer
Dillywood has extensive global expertise in the production of feature films, documentaries, short format content, specializing in international co-productions. The company, founded in 2004 by Anadil Hossain and Driss Benyaklef, oversaw production for award-winning directors Doug Liman (FAIR GAME), Wes Anderson (DARJEELING LIMITED), Karan Johar (KAL HO NAA HO, KABHIE ALVIDA NAA KEHNA), Mira Nair (THE NAMESAKE), Ashutosh Gowariker (SWADES, WHAT’S YOUR RASHEE?), Rakeysh Mehra (DELHI 6). Dillywood is committed to non-profit endeavors and has worked closely with Mira Nair on AIDS JAAGO, a Gates Foundation funded series of films on HIV/AIDS awareness in India, HOW CAN IT BE?, part of an international omnibus inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals, and others. Driss was co-producer on the documentary ANOTHER ROAD HOME, and worked on re-designing the web properties for the documentary FAT, SICK, AND NEARLY DEAD by Joe Cross and Kurt Engfehr. Anadil recently co-produced THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST with Mira Nair.