LIVING DOWNSTREAM

PACIFIC NW PREMIERE!
Directed by Chanda Chevannes
United States. 85 minutes.
Documentary
SAT OCT 16 @ 12:30pm | Salem Cinema
THURS OCT 21 @ 6:30pm | Salem Cinema

Audience Q&A following the film led by environmental health expert Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis of Oregon Environmental Council

Film Host Sponsor: Jennifer Carley, in loving memory of Susan Kay Davis, Marlene Frances Riggs & Margaret Phyllis Swank Straub

Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., this eloquent, poetic and character-driven film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. After a routine cancer screening, Sandra receives some worrying results and is thrust into a period of medical uncertainty. Thus, we begin two journeys with Sandra: her private struggles with cancer and her public quest to bring attention to the urgent human rights issue of cancer prevention. But Sandra is not the only one who is on a journey -- the chemicals against which she is fighting are also on the move. We follow these invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America. We see how these chemicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer. A personal journey as well as a scientific exploration, LIVING DOWNSTREAM is a powerful reminder of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our air, land and water.

Filmography: First Feature

Shown with the short film
The Eternal Recurrence
Pacific NW Premiere!
Directed by Charles Chadwick
Filmmaker in attendance
for Saturday showing
United States. 9 minutes.

The Eternal Recurrence investigates the gas mask as imagistic signifier, and henceforth uses found footage to disclose its relation to the history of chemical warfare within the first and second world wars. The film also illustrates the impact of the symbol and its backstory via a matrix of of other symbols that include the graveyard and the hula-hoop.