Video: Marion Cottilard meets Congo loggers

Posted by jamie — 18 August 2010 at 5:03pm - Comments

The third and fourth films documenting Inception star Marion Cottilard's journey to the Congo see her head out into the rainforest.

After meeting her hosts in Oshwe and the local forestry administration, she follows Greenpeace campaigners to see timber the loggers have left behind. Despite including sizeable tree trunks, they've been abandoned because they won't fetch enough money to make it worth the effort.

Marion also heads out to meet the loggers themselves, complete with chainsaws but no safety gear whatsoever. As she notes, only one-tenth of a tree which has taken decades or centuries to grow will be taken by the logger; the rest is wasted.

Watch episodes one and two >>

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