We love mobile phones. They connect us to family and friends, but also to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Inside many mobile phones are illegally mined minerals, minerals that fuel conflict, create child slavery, and support other severe human rights abuses in the Congo.

This riveting documentary reveals a mineral trade plagued with violence and human exploitation. The director takes on the Congolese military and corrupt warlords with barnstorming bravado to gain access to Bisie - a militia-controlled slave mine that produces cassiterite, a tin oxide used in cell phones - where as many as twenty-five thousand captive workers live in unimaginable squalor and fear.

He takes his findings to the Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia, a company that nets up to 1.6 billion dollars in profits annually, with the hope that Nokia will stand behind its claims of sustainability. But Nokia refuses to acknowledge the use of "blood" in the manufacture of their cellphones. Blood in the Mobile is a film about human courage, hope, and the search for solutions.

A fifty-two-minute version of the film is also available. Please call to order.

"Poulsen shines a brilliant light on a world dominated by paramilitary forces and subject to nightmarish working conditions. . . An excellent choice for anyone concerned with the problems of the modern world."
Library Journal

"Blood in the Mobile brings to light important issues to consider in our race for connectivity."
Heather Haynes, programmer, Hot Docs

"A disturbing film depicts the high price in African blood paid for the convenience of cell phones, as well as the relative indifference of big corporations that do not know - or at least do not care - where their raw materials come from".
Jack David Eller, Anthropological Review Database

Winner, Cinema for Peace Award in Berlin, 2011
Hot Docs Festival, Toronto, 2011
Amnesty International Movies That Matter, Netherlands, 2011
It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, 2011
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, 2011
ZagrebDox, Croatia, 2011
True/False Film Festival, Colombia, 2011

*AFRICA
*GLOBALIZATION & GLOBAL ISSUES
*HUMAN RIGHTS