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Something in the air / the National Film Board of Canada presents ; in the Nouveaux cinébastes en Acadie program ; a film by Sylvie Dauphinais ; produced by Diane Poitras ; researched, written and directed by Sylvie Dauphinais ; French Program, Acadia Documentary Studio, National Film Board of Canada.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Pesticides--Health aspects--Prince Edward Island.
- Pesticides.
- Asthma in children--Prince Edward Island.
- Asthma in children.
- Agricultural pollution--Environmental aspects--Prince Edward Island.
- Agricultural pollution.
- Potatoes--Diseases and pests--Control--Environmental aspects--Prince Edward Island.
- Potatoes.
- Environmentally induced diseases in children--Prince Edward Island.
- Environmentally induced diseases in children.
- Potatoes--Diseases and pests--Control.
- Potatoes--Diseases and pests.
- Agricultural pollution--Environmental aspects.
- Pesticides--Health aspects.
- Prince Edward Island.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (25 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English and French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Prince Edward Island--a rural paradise and a safe haven from the city. But is this image really a mirage? Many of the children on the Island can't catch their breath. PEI has the highest rate of hospital admissions for asthma in Canada, and many affected never leave home without an inhaler. Hanging over the farmers' fields, reaching into every city and town, is an invisible cloud of extremely dangerous poisons. Since the late 1960s, the potato has become the commercial crop, creating a monoculture that has destroyed the soil's natural balance. Consequently, potato farmers have grown more and more dependent on pesticides. The last twenty years has seen a 700% increase in the use of these toxins to kill insects that might endanger the potato harvest and the Island's economy. Filmmaker Sylvie Dauphinais discovered that living in paradise comes at a heavy cost: the health of her son. She has made this documentary to issue a wake-up call about an environmental crisis that is putting the ill, the elderly and the young at greatest risk.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Liz Mac Rae.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Michel La Veaux ; picture editing, José Heppell, Natacha Dufaux ; original music, Robert Marcel Lepage.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: French Program, Acadia Documentary Studio, National Film Board of Canada, ©2001; previously released in 2002.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 26, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-someth Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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