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Bikpela Bagarap (Big Damage) reveals the human face of logging in Papua New Guinea. It is a tale of exploitation and broken promises, where local people are treated as second-rate citizens in their own country by Malaysian logging companies and corrupt politicians. Customary landowners are forced into signing documents they don't understand, for the promise of development - fresh water, health and education, but these essential services are rarely provided. Instead, their traditional hunting grounds are destroyed, waterways polluted, and their way of life ruined forever. AWARDs Special Mention at the Village Doc Film Festival 2012 - Milan, Italy FESTIVALS 2012 Steps International Film Festival - Kharkov, Ukraine Cinema Planeta - Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico Barents Ecology Film Festival - Petrozavodsk, Russia Addis International Film Festival - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival - Palmerston North, New Zealand The Village Doc Festival - Milan, Italy Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival - Torino, Italy Scinema Festival of Science Film - Australia Mastalu International Nature Film Festival - Lihula, Estonia Montreal International Black Film Festival - Montreal, Canada Freedom Film Festival - Sarawak, Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Terra Di Tutti Film Festival - Bologna, Italy Cinema Politica - Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2011 Agitprop International Film Festival on Peoples' Struggles - Manila, the Philippines Portobello Film Festival - London, United Kingdom Docubazaar Independent Documentary Film Festival - Ljubljana, Slovenia ânûû-rû âboro (a man's shadow) Film Festival - Pweedi Wiimîâ, New Caledonia Papua New Guinea Human Rights Film Festival - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Directed By: David Fedele

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Originally produced by David Fedele in 2011

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