The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, playgrounds… It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.
After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on.
- Year2020
- Runtime86 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States, France
- PremiereOct 2020
- DirectorAlan Adelson, Kate Taverna
- ScreenwriterAlan Adelson, Veronique Bernard, Kate Taverna
- ProducerAlan Adelson
- Executive ProducerKate Taverna
- FilmmakerSam Shinn (Dir/Photography-Oregon/Vermont)
- CastCarol Van Strum, Bruce Anderson, To Nga Tran
- CinematographerLuca Chiari(Dir/Cine), Scott Sinkler (Vietnam), Dyanna Taylor (US)
- EditorKate Taverna
- AnimatorT.J. Seiler (film colorist)
- Production DesignArte France Films for Humanity, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
- ComposerBlake Leyh, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
- Sound DesignTom Paul
- MusicBlake Leyh
The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, playgrounds… It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.
After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on.
- Year2020
- Runtime86 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States, France
- PremiereOct 2020
- DirectorAlan Adelson, Kate Taverna
- ScreenwriterAlan Adelson, Veronique Bernard, Kate Taverna
- ProducerAlan Adelson
- Executive ProducerKate Taverna
- FilmmakerSam Shinn (Dir/Photography-Oregon/Vermont)
- CastCarol Van Strum, Bruce Anderson, To Nga Tran
- CinematographerLuca Chiari(Dir/Cine), Scott Sinkler (Vietnam), Dyanna Taylor (US)
- EditorKate Taverna
- AnimatorT.J. Seiler (film colorist)
- Production DesignArte France Films for Humanity, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
- ComposerBlake Leyh, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
- Sound DesignTom Paul
- MusicBlake Leyh