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.
The filmmakers are joined in a conversation with activists from peace, environmental and community rights organizations. Link:
- Year2020
- Runtime87 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, French, Vietnamese
- CountryUnited States, France, Viet Nam
- Premiere2020
- DirectorAlan Adelson and Kate Taverna
- ProducerAlan Adelson, Kate Taverna, Veronique Bernard
- Executive ProducerSally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Maxyne Franklin, Gini Reticker, Abigail E. Disney
- CinematographerMichael Julian Berz, Luca Chiari Craig Marsden, Sam Shinn, Scott Sinkler, Dyanna Taylor Tran Duc Tho
- EditorKate Taverna
- AnimatorNuncle, Anita H.M. Yu
- ComposerBlake Leyh and Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
- Sound DesignTom Paul, Gigantic
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.
The filmmakers are joined in a conversation with activists from peace, environmental and community rights organizations. Link:
- Year2020
- Runtime87 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, French, Vietnamese
- CountryUnited States, France, Viet Nam
- Premiere2020
- DirectorAlan Adelson and Kate Taverna
- ProducerAlan Adelson, Kate Taverna, Veronique Bernard
- Executive ProducerSally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Maxyne Franklin, Gini Reticker, Abigail E. Disney
- CinematographerMichael Julian Berz, Luca Chiari Craig Marsden, Sam Shinn, Scott Sinkler, Dyanna Taylor Tran Duc Tho
- EditorKate Taverna
- AnimatorNuncle, Anita H.M. Yu
- ComposerBlake Leyh and Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
- Sound DesignTom Paul, Gigantic