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Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
2024

Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics

Australian Premiere.

All plastic breaks down to become microplastics then drifts in the air, floats in bodies of water and mixes with the earth. Acclaimed science journalist Ziya Tong interviews global scientists, confirming we are all becoming plastic!

Director

Ben Addelman
Ziya Tong

Runtime

83 Minutes

Country

Canada

Classification

All Ages

We are becoming plastic! Plastic microfibres are now in human placentas, in our brains and other organs.

A shockingly urgent documentary tackling the impact of plastic on our bodies and health. All plastic breaks down to become microplastics or plastic flakes which then drift in the air, float in bodies of water and mixes with the earth. Audiences are presented with the confronting proposition that humans and other species are becoming plastic, an invasion now beginning in placentas and invading organs and brain tissue.

Acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong visits scientists from across the globe to get the measure of this invasion. Ziya also uses her own house and body to test for micro-plastics. Along with award-winning documentary and television director, Ben Addeleman, she makes an impassioned call to action to change our relationship to plastic.

Working the invasion metaphor, the film also uses wonderful archival footage, to trace the arrival of plastic into society, as a new miracle material. Its ubiquitousness now also fueling an expansion in demand for oil.

“Plastic People is one of those essential state-of-our-world documentaries.”

Variety

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Sheffield, DOXA

Film Credits

Director

Ben Addelman & Ziya Tong

Year

2024

Country

Canada

Language

English

Type

Documentary & Feature

Program Strand

Change Award & World Documentary

Producer

Vanessa Dylyn & Stephen Paniccia

Writer

Ben Addelman

Cinematographer

Roger Singh

Editor

Ania Smolenskaia

Music

Justin Small & Ohad Benchetrit

Film Source

Rainmaker Content

Genre

DocumentaryEducational & Environmental

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Sunday 27 Oct 2024

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