DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS est un documentaire politique sur circulation sans contrôle des armes légères, qui régulent et ruinent les vies d’un nombre croissant de gens dans les pays en voie de développement.

A travers les yeux de différents experts dont les vies dépendent des armes légères, le film montre les causes et l’impact du commerce à la fois légal, « gris » et illéga d’armes légères et leurs munitions, en particulier dans des régions où l’Union Européenne et les Nations Unies sont actives, telles l’ancienne Yougoslavie et le Congo. S’adressant spécialement au public occidental, le film montre comment les marchands d’armes – souvent souvent sous quelques couvertures légales organisées – achètent les armes collectées par l’UE et l’OTAN durant leur mission en Bosnie. Ces marchands transfèrent les armes sur les champs de bataille africains où ils continuent sans entrave à servir, à tuer.

Tourné au Cambodge, Congo (dans l’Est), Ouganda, Bosnie-Herzegovine, Serbie, Allemagne, Etats-Unis et Hollande, DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS vous ouvre les yeux sur une réalité mondiale rarement montré au public.



Aan de hand van diverse verhalen, ontdekt de kijker hoe in de rijke landen geproduceerde vuurwapens het leven van een groeiend aantal mensen in ontwikkelingslanden regeren en ruïneren.


Regisseur : Sander Francken
Producent-H: Sander Francken
Producent-U: Anna Kanneworff
Scenario : Joost Schrickx
Camera : Pieter Groeneveld
Camera : Sander Snoep
Camera : Edwin Donders
Camera : Jan-Dries Groenendijk
Camera : Maarten Kramer
Camera : Sander Francken
Geluid : Sander Francken
Geluid : Carla van der Meijs
Sounddesign: Wim Vonk
Editor : Gys Zevenbergen
Muziek : Rainer Michel
Prodcompany: Sander Francken Film

TVcompany : LLink

categorie: Lange Documentaire
genre: Documentaire
onderdeel: Hoofdprogramma
premierejaar: 2006
lengte: 90 minuten
drager: 35mm
kleur
dialoog: Ned, Eng, Fra
ondertitels: Engels

DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS is a political documentary on the uncontrolled widespread of small arms, which rule and ruin the lives of a growing number of people in developing countries.

Through the eyes of different experts whose lives depend on small arms, the film shows the causes and impact of the trade-both legal,’grey’ and illegal-in small arms and its ammunitions, in particular in regions where the European Union and the United Nations are active, such as former Yugoslavia and Congo. Especially interesting for the western audience, the film shows how brokers-often under some’organized’ legal cover-buy weapons collected by the EU and NATO during their mission in Bosnia. These brokers transfer the weapons directly to African battlefields where they continue their killing lifespan unhindered.


Shot on location in Cambodia, Eastern Congo, Uganda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, the United States and The Netherlands, DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS opens up our consciousness to a global reality rarely shown to the general public.


Dealing and Wheeling on DVD

The DVD of DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS is available now. It contains a 90 minute version and a 53 minute version of the documentary, with a choice of subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Serbi Croation.

The DVD costs 25 Euro. For orders outside the Netherlands, please add 3,50 euro for shipping and handling.

To order the DVD, send and e-mail to [email protected].


Dealing and Wheeling on other Formats
DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS is also available in the following formats: 35 mm film, Digibeta & Betacam SP, and DV Cam.


director & producer: Sander Francken – SFFilm
co-producer: Llink – De Nieuwe Omroep
editor: Gys Zevenbergen
cinematographers: Sander Snoep, Pieter Groeneveld, Edwin Donders, Jan-Dries Groenendijk, Maarten Kramer and Sander Francken
production management: Anna Kanneworff
unit line producers: Mitchke Leemans, Pyt Douma, Joep Bannenberg and Anna Kanneworff
voice-over: Vanessa Redgrave
music: Rainer Michel
sound design: Wim Vonk
script: Joost Schrickx, Josh Lacey and Sander Francken
research: Joost Schrickx and Emile Lebrun
graphic design: Frits van Hartingsveld
animation & titles: Joost Hiensch & Ramon Fennet – Shosho
online editing: Erik Clignett – Filmmore
color grading: Martin Klein – Filmmore
35mm recording: Maarten de Graaf – Cineco
edit trailer: Talia Stone – Post-Office

sponsors: MEDIA Program of the European Community * NCDO * HIVOS * Netherlands Film Fund * CoBO Fonds * Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs * Llink De Nieuwe Omroep * Oxfam Novib * Amnesty International * Unicef * Pax Christi * EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate General for Development – to promote better understanding of development issues * UK GOVERNMENT Global Conflict Prevention Pool * CMC Mensen met een Missie




Cast

Kawa Panga

Chief Yves Kawa Panga Mandro was born August 20 1973 as heir to the Nwagi Dynasty ruling the Mandro District east of Bunia, Eastern Congo since the 17th century. Chief Kawa Panga is the leader of the militia ‘Parti pour l’Unité et la Sauvegarde de l’Intégrité du Congo (PUSIC) and he is one of the warlords involved in the Bunia Massacre on May 27, 2003. On April 9, 2005 the local judicial Congolese authorities and the MONUC, the UN Forces in Congo, arrested Chief Kawa on charge of trafficking arms and violating the UN Arms Embargo. He has been sentenced to twenty years.

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Brian Wood

Brian Wood is one of the most prominent researchers on arms brokering and arms trafficking in the world. As senior researcher for Amnesty International UK he is based in London.

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Raphael Katabarwa

Raphael NZUMAKI KATABARWA was born in Bogoro, on August 27 1951. He is one of the victims of the Bunia Massacre, where he lost his second wife. Raphael is a pedagogue and father of thirteen children, of which are six daughters and seven sons.

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Arthur van Oest

Arthur van Oest is the impersonation of the paradox ‘violence as entertainment’. On the one hand he is a special effects contributor at many feature films productions, on the other hand he extracts his weapons from a circuit of sometimes shady weapon dealers. Of a friendly nature, Arthur is always prepared to tell stories of his many adventures and experiences on film-sets. However, the origin and history of his weapons collection is something he does not disclose easily.

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Christian Jennings

Christian Jennings started with a brief military career as a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion and in the British Territorial Army. For the last ten years, Jennings has been a foreign correspondent covering military interventions, Special Forces operations and world conflicts for twelve years in thirteen different countries. From 1999-2003 he was based in Kosovo and the Balkans and from 1994-1998 in Central Africa, where he reported on genocide, civil war and humanitarian disasters from Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Congo. Currently, Christian Jennings works and lives in Sarajevo.

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Jim Sullivan

L. James Sullivan is an American, dedicating his life to designing and perfecting the designs of firearms and ammunition. He has been doing this for 48 years with over 200 patents on his name in 22 countries. Despite his old age he is still very active in his profession. Sullivan worked for years at Colt, the weapons factory that gratefully used his genius designs such as the Singapore Ultimax 100 machine gun, the Ruger Mini 14 gun, the AT22 and AR-7.22 caliber pistol and the C-MAG 100-shot. However, James Sullivan is mostly famous for his co-designership of the M-16 together with Eugene Stoner. This assault rifle was developed in the 50s on Stoner’s own initiative. Till 1962 an early type of this weapon was fabricated in The Netherlands under the name AR-10. The M-16 has become famous during the Vietnam war and even now, after this war has long been over, the M16 is still widely found in former war torn countries Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.



Theatrical Release
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms had its theatrical release in The Netherlands on january 4th 2007. The documentary was screened in Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Nijmegen, and Maastricht.

Previews and Special Screenings

United Nations Review Conference Small Arms & Light Weapons (SALW), New York.
International Peace Day (hosted by International Alert), London.
7th World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) Helsinki.
Instituut voor Criminaliteitsbeheersing en Recherchekunde & Landelijk Platform Vuurwapens, Zutphen.
European Parliament, Brussels.
Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit Politicologie & faculteit Geneeskunde, Amsterdam.
Evert Vermeer Stichting / PvdA: jaarlijkse ‘Afrika Dag’, Haagse Hogeschool.
A Struggle for Peace, international conference, Utrecht.