Documentary

The Brussels Business

Filmplakat mit einem großen hölzernen Trojanischen Pferd auf einer Stadtlandschaft im Sonnenuntergang, Titel The Brusse$els Business mit dem Untertitel Who runs the European Union?

In the early 1990s two young men discover the immense influences of lobbying on EU legislation. One starts to investigate and becomes the EU's leading lobby watchdog. The other one is fascinated by the immense possibilities of influencing legislation. He becomes a high profile lobbyist in the services sector and now can claim to represent 50% of the EU's gross domestic product. A film about lobbying and the networks of power in the world's biggest economy – the European Union.

Data

Category: Documentary
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: 4k, HD, 88 Min
Release: 16.03.2012
Distribution: ThimFilm GmbH
Admissions: 4.145
Co-production: Visualantics (BE)
International funding: Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Centre d’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Brussel, Washington, Geneva, Jakarta, London, Vienna
Shooting time: October - July 2011
Completion: Spring 2012
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Friedrich Moser
Producer Austria: Friedrich Moser, Steven Dhoedt
Director: Friedrich Moser, Matthieu Lietaert
Script-concept: Friedrich Moser, Matthieu Lietaert
DOP: Friedrich Moser
Editor: Jesper Osmund, Friedrich Moser, Michaela Müllner
Sound engineer: Blaise Jadoul
Music: Johannes Rothenaicher
Production manager: Friedrich Moser
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF/ARTE, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone RTBF