Mining companies support Red Dog feature
Rio Tinto, Woodside and WestTrac will provide finance and logistical support for Red Dog, the film about the famous kelpie that travelled throughout the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
According to Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh, the project will be an opportunity to showcase their industry and the story of the Pilbara region to the world.
“Red Dog was a frequent visitor to our operations, and I believe this film will capture the spirit and history of this unique place,” he said.
The film will be produced by Nelson Woss and Julie Ryan, directed by Kriv Stenders and based on the novel by Louis De Bernieres. Red Dog is currently in pre-production in Adelaide, scheduled for a May-June shoot that will also cover the real-life activities of the resource companies in the Pilbara region.
Koko is a Star! I cant wait to see more of him.
Great promotional clip and marketing tool.
Have fun with the filming!
How convenient for the mining companies that an Australian film will promote their industry to the world. Are these the same mining companies that resist paying a resource tax to the Australian public?[comment edited]
And yet these same companies care enough about a stray dog to pour funds into a feel-good movie.
Red Dog is currently featured at an Australian film festival in Israel, while that apartheid state imprisons and humiliates millions of Palestinians in their own homeland.
Culture and entertainment that is prostituted to serve inhumane and destructive regimes and corporations is nothing more than propaganda.
Rio Tinto… global miners, film impressarios… genocide?
“A US federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit seeking to hold Rio Tinto responsible for human rights violations and thousands of deaths linked to a Bougainville copper and gold mine it once ran.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201.....it/3601136