Project of the Day: ‘The Canal’
IndieWire Staff
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Tweetable Logline: The Love Canal cocktail: Mix three families with 22,000 tons of toxic chemicals. Shake well.
Elevator Pitch: Of the 80,000 chemicals in everyday use only 2% have been tested for their health effects on humans and yet we face a seemingly mysterious rise in cancers, asthma, autism. The Canal tells the story of how a community who saw the connection clearly and did something about it.
Production Team:
Will Battersby – Director / Producer
Wren Arthur – Producer
April Merl – Editor
Gillian Arthur – Sound Mixer
Evan Pohl – Co-producer
Frederic Fasano – Director of Photography
About the film: People, especially children, should not be exposed to toxic chemicals in everyday products or in waste streams but we all are, constantly. There is a direct link between exposure and cancer, childhood leukemia, asthma, autism, you name it. I hope this film inspires people to demand better and to demand change.
Current Status: We just launched our Indiegogo campaign to raise the finishing funds.
For more information and to support this project: Indiegogo Page
