DYING IN ABUNDANCE
When multinational corporations and food speculators control agriculture, soaring prices leave nearly a billion people undernourished, at a time when the planet produces more food than ever.
54 min
2009
Full HD
Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
SECOND MENTION PRIZE, XII Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010
DYING IN ABUNDANCE
When multinational corporations and food speculators control agriculture, soaring prices leave nearly a billion people undernourished, at a time when the planet produces more food than ever.
54 min 2009 Full HD
Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
SECOND MENTION PRIZE, XII Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2010

SYNOPSIS
“Control oil and you control nations. Control food and you control the people!”
Henry Kissinger, 1974
A handful of multinational companies have managed to control the “heart” of the food we put on our table everyday: The very seed and, therefore, global agricultural production. Brokers in the developed world gamble with food, raising and lowering prices, playing with the fundamental right of millions of people to access food. Meanwhile, almost a billion people on this planet are undernourished and 25,000 die of hunger each day. Could it be that the Earth can no longer feed its population?
The evidence proves otherwise! The food crisis, as it will go down in history, occurs at a time when the planet is producing more food than ever. Filmed in India and the USA, “Dying in abundance” unfolds the absurd before our eyes, the interconnections of a system in which, while there is enough food, it is so expensive the poor cannot afford it.



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MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed By: YORGOS AVGEROPOULOS
Produced By: GEORGIA ANAGNOU
Production Manager: ANASTASIA SKOUBRI
Director of Photography: DINESH LAL
Research Coordinator: AGGELOS ATHANASOPOULOS
Editing: YIANNIS BILIRIS, ANNA PROKOU
Music: YIANNIS PAXEVANIS
Website Coordinator: APOSTOLIS KAPAROUDAKIS
Graphics: SAKIS PALPANAS