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Shadow of the Holy Book

Shadow of the Holy Book exposes the immorality of international companies doing business with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan, thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech abuses — all in the name of profit and corporate greed.

Premiere Date

September 14, 2009

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Arto Halonen

Producer/Director

Arto Halonen has directed numerous films, including the documentary films Pavlov’s Dogs, Conquistadors of Cuba, The Tank Man, The Star’s Caravan, A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe, and Karmapa – Two Ways of Divinity. In 2005 the Minister of Culture in Finland awarded Arto Halonen the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in the arts given by the Ministry of Culture and the state. Among other prizes, he has received the Humanitarian Award of the European Union in 1998. Halonen is also the founder and the first festival director of the DocPoint, the Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.