Promises for Business

In the making of the ‘new’ Arctic, Greenland has been re-situated by soaring global demands for minerals and metals, a shrinking ice cap, and a mining sector’s eagerness to grow. Despite the promises that wealth mining activities deliver, only one mine is currently operating. Promises for Business is a film that witnesses, documents and questions the complexity of the Arctic mining sector’s ambitions and challenges. Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen investigates with her camera the predictions, promises and paradoxes of mineral exploration and exploitation when different actors attempt to establish Greenland as a mining nation. In the role of a visual journalist, Havsteen-Mikkelsen traces the political tensions in the ‘race for resources’.