Marc Wiese is a German documentary filmmaker born in Dortmund. He has been making films for television and cinema for over 25 years. He is the author of Camp 14: Total Control Zone, a film about Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have successfully escaped from a North Korean labor camp. Wiese received an award from the Biarritz International Audiovisual Programming Festival in 2009 for his TV documentary, Kanun: The Law of Honnor. His most recent film, _This Stolen Country of Mine, _won the DocsMX 2022 "Our America" Jury Prize.
The film follows the struggles of Paúl Jarrín, a local mediator in Río Blanco, northern Ecuador, and Fernando Villavicencio, an investigative journalist, against their government, which is depriving its population of control over the country's mineral resources by awarding contracts to Chinese contractors. Mark Wiese gives a voice to the people caught up in the geopolitical machinery and victim...
The film follows the struggles of Paúl Jarrín, a local mediator in Río Blanco, northern Ecuador, and Fernando Villavicencio, an investigative journalist, against their government, which is depriving its population of control over the country's mineral resources by awarding contracts to Chinese contractors. Mark Wiese gives a voice to the people caught up in the geopolitical machinery and victim...