Utopia (John Pilger) - Showing on ITV tonight.

opr

I missed this in the IFI a few weeks ago but it's showing on ITV/UTV tonight.

Utopia's is director John Pilger documentary detailing the plight of the Aboriginal population in Utopia.

http://www.ifi.ie/film/utopia/

The world is facing a desperate hunt for resources. Australia has become the source of the ‘last gold’: a hidden trove of gold, silver, uranium, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, lead, diamonds, and unlimited reserves of liquid gas. The struggle for this treasure is an epic story rarely told, illuminating the very notions of power and greed, justice and human rights, war and peace.

It is the story of Utopia, the new feature documentary from BAFTA and Emmy winning filmmaker and journalist John Pilger, who draws on his long association with the first people of Australia, whom he filmed for his seminal The Secret Country (1985). One of the world’s best kept secrets is revealed against a background of the greatest boom in mineral wealth. Has the ‘lucky country’ inherited South African apartheid? Utopia is both a personal journey and a universal story of power and resistance in the media age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8_5UlcgSQ

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Tipsy McSwagger

I love John Pilger and will definitely check this out.

gazzer

Ah damn it. I checked the tv guide stupidly thinking this was going to be on at 9pm but that Millionaire show was on. I presumed I had got the date wrong.

Anybody know if it will be repeated?