STEALING FROM THE POOR
Off West Africa’s coasts, industrial fleets fish illegally, devastating marine life and driving millions in Senegal and beyond into poverty and hunger.
Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
CROCEVIA AWARD, 10th Festival delle Terre, Rome, Italy, May 2013
STEALING FROM THE POOR
Off West Africa’s coasts industrial fleets fish illegally, devastating marine life and driving millions in Senegal and beyond into poverty and hunger.
53 min 2010 Full HD
Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
CROCEVIA AWARD, 10th Festival delle Terre, Rome, Italy, May 2013

SYNOPSIS
Have you ever asked yourself where does the fish you eat come from? If you had, you would be controlling a huge pirate industry which commits a crime in your dish! The ever-rising demand for fish in the international market has driven European and Asian fishing fleets towards the coasts of West Africa. Hundreds of industrial pirate ships are fishing illegally in the territorial waters of the nations of the area, devastating all forms of life in the ocean and condemning millions of Africans to poverty and hunger. “Stealing from the Poor” was filmed in Senegal, where pirate fishing perpetrated by huge industrial vessels belonging to developed countries is depriving the inhabitants of this West African country of their main source of subsistence.


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MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed By: YORGOS AVGEROPOULOS
Produced By: GEORGIA ANAGNOU
Production Manager: ANASTASIA SKOUBRI
Director of Photography: YIANNIS AVGEROPOULOS
Editing: YIANNIS BILIRIS, ANNA PROKOU
Music: YIANNIS PAXEVANIS