Trading Paradise  - Switzerland, 2016, 78’

Director: DANIEL SCHWEIZER

Born in 1959 in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the departments of Graphic Expression and Audio-Visual of ESAV (École Supérieure d’Art Visuel) in Geneva. In 1982 he attended ESEC (École Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques) in Paris. Since 1993 he has been working as an independent director and producer.

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Large parts of the world trade in extracting companies commodities are re-handled by companies based in Zug and Geneva, in Switzerland. They are known to pay very little taxes and to defy responsibility for environmental damages caused in the extracting countries. Trading Paradise shows how this business works and how NGOs try to improve the transparency and liability of these commodities giants.