Power Trip (2003)
- Director(s):
- Paul Devlin
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Power Trip
In 1999, the major American utility company AES Corporation spent over 30 million dollars to purchase the former Soviet Republic of Georgia's electrical distributing company, Telasi, in a bid to expand the American company's international market share. In his 2003 documentary entitled Power Trip, filmmaker Paul Devlin examined the actions of the Georgian citizenry and governmental officials, as well as those taken by the AES management team. What looked good on paper turned into a series of major business setbacks, as the Republic of Georgia had been beset with constant domestic turmoil since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Quite nearly from the beginning of the Telasi buy-out, the AES upper management team was presented with numerous seemingly unpredictable and insurmountable obstacles which included the extremely low incomes of the vast majority of the population and pervasive governmental corruption. As the American company struggled to single-handedly update a nearly Third World economy, the Georgian populace was merely struggling to exist. Power Trip was a included in the program for the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 85 mins
- Director(s):
- Paul Devlin
- Producer(s):
- Paul Devlin
- Categories:
- Documentary, Special Interest
- 2003 - Hot Docs International Film Festival - Best International Documentary Feature
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