In his critically acclaimed documentary film Ironeaters, filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz follows poverty-stricken farmers who try to escape the annual famine that strikes their home in northern Bangladesh. They trade in their plows for a blowtorch and begin to work as ship- wreckers, risking their health and their lives for a pittance.
More information on: dill-riaz.com/ironeaters/
Ironeaters Awards
Grimme Award 2010
First Prize: Tel-Aviv International Documentary Film Festival 2008
First Prize: Le Festival International Du Film D´Environnement, Paris 2007
First Prize: South Asian International Film Festival in Katmandu, Nepal
First Prize: Eine-Welt-Film-Preis NRW Fernsehworkshops Entwicklungspolitik
Best documentary Hachenburger Filmfest 2008
Best documentary Achtung Berlin EPD Film of the Month, June 2008
