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, playground. 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.
Special Note: MNFF artistic director Jay Craven will lead a probing conversation with The People vs. Agent Orange filmmakers Kate Taverna and Alan Adelson along with Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney for Lincoln County Community Rights lawsuit against aerial spraying of herbicides in Oregon, and Susan Hammond, from Bellows Falls, Vermont, who leads the internationally respected War Legacies Project and was recently profiled in a New York Times Magazine feature story for her work on Agent Orange issues in Laos. The interview will be available on the MNFF watch portal as part of our Split/Screen May offering
May Split/Screen program is curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing the program through one of your apps, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Roku, Firestick and Apple TV apps, not the VTIFF apps.
Series Pass available from May 7 HERE