Mine Your Own Business

Mine Your Own Business is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roia Montan mining project. The film documents environmentalists opposition to the mine as unsympathetic to the needs and desires of the locals, prevents industrial progress, and consequently locks the people of the area into lives of poverty. The film shows that the majority of the people of the village support the mine, and the investment in their hometown. The film presents foreign environmentalists as alien agents opposed to progress, while residents are depicted as eagerly awaiting the new opportunity.

In the documentary, Lucian meets Mark Fenn from the World Wildlife Fund, who is shown living in luxurious conditions, at one point showing off his 35,000 sailboat to the cameras, all the while advocating the value of living a simplistic, village life.Director Phelim McAleer has stated in interviews that the film, in its essence, is not really at all a story about mining, but rather, It is a story about human rights. The human right to a job, the human right to have your children educated, the human right to see your child reach their first birthday. He cites among other serious concerns, the fact that high infant mortality rates are closely correlated with the sort of poverty that afflicts the region. ........

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