Ecobreves – URUGUAY: Film Explodes “Myths” About Pulp Mill

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MONTEVIDEO, Jan 13 2007 (IPS) - A documentary film criticising activists in the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú, who fear a pulp mill to be installed on the eastern bank of the border river between both countries will cause pollution, was shown for the first time in Uruguay on Jan. 12. “No a los papelones”, directed by Argentine Eduardo Montes Bradley, is being shown in cinemas in Montevideo and Punta del Este.

“It's about ideological falsehood, about a town afraid about something it knows nothing about. And it portrays those in the front line of the demonstrations using emotional arguments, such as that (the area's residents) will have three-headed babies,” Pepi Goncalvez, the film's press spokeswoman, told Tierramérica.

“It's not against people who do serious environmental work,” she said.

The distributors are not showing the film in Argentina for fear of reprisals.