Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
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| Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town | |
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| Directed by | Micha Peled |
| Written by | Micha Peled |
| Produced by | Micha Peled Independent Television Service Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
| Starring | Sam Walton |
| Cinematography | Allen Moore |
| Edited by | Ken Schneider |
| Music by | Pete Sears |
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Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town is a documentary based on a true story, directed by filmmaker Micha Peled.[1][2][3] The movie was released on October 2, 2001. It is Peled's second documentary after Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin? (1993). It is the part one of Peled's Globalization Trilogy where the other two films of the trilogy are China Blue (2005) and Bitter Seeds (2011). The film's music was directed by Pete Sears and the cinematography was taken care by Allen Moore. It was premiered in South by Southwest Film Festival in 2001. The documentary won CINE Golden Eagle Awards and Golden Gate award in San Francisco International Film Festival.[4][5][6]
The film has the background as the real situation at Ashland, Virginia, US when the population of Ashland engaged into a year long struggle and conflict with the members of the same community as Walmart decided to set up one of its megastores in the town. The event milestones narrated in the film may be considered to be starting from the first "public hearing that galvanizes residents' opposition" to the final voting that the Town Council concluded. Being faithful to the actual historical events, the movie depicts the conflict between the community on the ground if the proposed megastore would be beneficial for the community or not where the population was divided into two parts in favor and in against the proposal.[7][8][9][10]