The award-winning feature documentary Plastic People investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. Almost every bit of plastic ever made breaks down into “microplastics.” These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in all bodies of water, and mix into the soil, becoming a permanent part of the environment.
Now, leading scientists are finding these particles in our bodies: organs, blood, brain tissue, and even the placentas of new mothers. What is the impact of these invisible invaders on our health? And can anything be done about it?
Acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong takes a personal approach by visiting leading scientists around the world and undergoing experiments in her home, on her food, and her body while collaborating with award-winning director Ben Addelman (Discordia, Bombay Calling, Nollywood Babylon, Kivalina v. Exxon) in an urgent call to action for all of us to rethink our relationship with plastic.
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Ben Addelman is the director of four award-winning feature documentaries (Discordia, Nollywood Babylon, Bombay Calling, Kivalina vs Exxon) and numerous TV series (Becoming You, Payday, Limitless).
His films have screened at major festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Hotdocs, Edinburgh, Human Rights Watch NYC and Whistler. His work has been broadcast on Apple TV+, Disney +, Netflix, BBC, Viceland, CBC, Sundance Channel, National Geographic, and others
Ziya Tong is a television personality and producer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is co-host of Discovery Channel’s long-running primetime science magazine, Daily Planet (1996), Canada’s daily science show, where she brings to the stage a wealth of knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm for science and the environment, and addresses issues such as the shifting nature of time and space, and our place within the universe.
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