Prof. Ron Herring (Institute for Social Sciences) offers a critique of Vandava Shiva's work and claims after screening
Vandana Shiva, the Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, is a controversial figure: Time Magazine has called her a hero for our times, and she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, but she was also given "The Bullshit Award" for sustaining poverty by a liberal think-tank. Bullshit attempts to separate the wheat from the un-patented, genetically unmodified chaff of an ancient strain of wheat multinational biotech company Monsanto has attempted to claim as its own. Following two years of her life, from her organic farm at the base of the Himalayas to a Coca-Cola plant in Kerala (which she attempts to shut down due to groundwater pollution), it also includes a meeting between Shiva and Barun Mitra, the man who gave her the "Bullshit Prize." "Bullshit shows us another side of the Third World... Like a small hot, colourful steam engine, she puffs along, the Indian environment activist Vandana Shiva... People, in what we in the West call the Third World, are all too often shown as victims—an image that Vandana Shiva does away with entirely." (Svenska Dagbladet) More at peaholmquist.com/bullshit Video projection
2005, color, 1 hour 13 minutes, Sweden