A Dangerous Game + Q&A
classified PGPlease note: This was screened in Oct 2014
In the wake of filmmaker Anthony Baxter's successful documentary You've Been Trumped this follow-up see the director sitting down with Donald Trump to challenge his plans for extension along the Scottish coastline and examines the ecological cost in similar golf parks. The public backlash to Donald Trump's golf resort in Aberdeenshire's Menie estate was overwhelming. Built on the razed site of rare sand dune formations, the outcry spread internationally in the wake of filmmaker Anthony Baxter's successful documentary You've Been Trumped. In this follow-up, he sits down with Donald Trump to challenge his plans for extension along the Scottish coastline and examines the ecological cost in similar golf parks. Spanning Dubrovnik, Las Vegas, New Jersey, and Abu Dhabi, he addresses issues from the sport's gender imbalance to the irresponsible use of potable water by the global golf industry: the amount used annually to transform arid land into grassy playgrounds for the world's rich is enough for 80% of the world's population. Meeting with the key players in the development projects and the residents who dare oppose them, Baxter shows that the fight to reclaim our fragile, natural commons from private interests continues to be a struggle.
After the screening we welcome Wilf Mound of Bristol Greenpeace and Maddy Longhurst of The Blue Finger Alliance to chair a discussion about the environmental and social justice issues raised in the film.
Presented in partnership with Bristol Festival of Ideas.
Ticket prices: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions.