Toxic Soup: The Movie

Mountain Man Trailer

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:20:51 +0000

He’s been laughed at, cussed, and shot at, but Larry Gibson refuses to abandon his home. Gibson has lived atop Kayford Mountain in West Virginia for decades, fighting to save his family’s land from one of the biggest Mountain Top Removal mines in Appalachia.

“Mountain Man” is a 9 1/2 minute short documentary. It features interviews with West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman, political strategist Mudcat Saunders, Jesuit Wheeling’s Dr. Ben Stout, retired coal miner Chuck Nelson, Coal River Mountain Watch’s Rory McIlmoil and UK’s Dr. Ron Eller, among other interviews.

Look for “Mountain Man” at film festivals in 2011.

Twin Cities Film Festival

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:19:37 +0000

Good news, folks. There a bunch of “Toxic Soup” screenings coming up soon. First, we have a screening at Rutgers University as part of the 2010 New Jersey Film Festival. This will be on Sunday, September 12th at 7 pm. Second, we are screening at Glenville State College on Wednesday, September 29th at 7 pm.

As part of the Twin Cities Film Festival, we will be screening on Friday, October 1st at 5 pm in Minneapolis, MN. On Saturday, October 2nd at 6 pm “Toxic Soup” will be screening at the Landmark Studio for the Arts in Sutton, WV as part of the West Virginia Filmmakers Festival. We will also be screening at the 2010 Louisville International Festival of Film as well as the 2010 American Conservation Film Festival, but you will have to stay tuned for those dates.

American Conservation Film Festival

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:34:34 +0000

“Toxic Soup” was just named an official selection of the American Conservation Film Festival. Stay tuned for more details.

August 7th Screening

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:08:52 +0000

“Toxic Soup” will be screening on Saturday, August 7th at 3:15 pm at the Bangor Opera House as part of the 2010 KahBang Film, Art and Music Festival in Bangor, Maine.

KahBang Film, Art and Music Festival

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:48:04 +0000

We are proud to announce that “Toxic Soup” will be screening at the 2010 KahBang Film, Art and Music Festival in Bangor, Maine.

Also performing at the KahBang Festival is the legendary Biz Markie as well as OKGO.

We do not have our screening scheduled yet, but when it is available, it will be made public.

We look forward to seeing you there!

New Jersey Film Festival

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:12:43 +0000

“Toxic Soup” will be screening at the New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University this fall in the competition bracket.

“Toxic Soup” will be screening on Sunday, September 12th at 7 pm at Voorhees Hall #105 at Rutgers University.

DIRECTIONS: Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 9 and then take Route 18N (New Brunswick direction) and go for 2 1/2 miles to the College Avenue Campus/George Street exit (immediately after the Route 27S exit) and make a left at the light at the end of the exit ramp onto George Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto Hamilton Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto College Avenue. Almost immediately on your right hand side there is an University Parking Lot (#9) which is made available for our patrons to park in. Voorhees Hall is adjacent to the Zimmerli Art Museum and is 100 paces across the Voorhees Mall from Parking Lot 9. Patrons can also park in Rutgers Lots #1 (next to Kirkpatrick Chapel) and #16 (next to Murray and Milledoler Hall).

Also in case you prefer to travel via train, know that Rutgers is only an one hour ride from New York City. We hope to see you there!

Oilpacolypse

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:35:54 +0000

A great visual depicting the whoring of our environment for corporate profits courtesy of Mother Jones, one of the better investigative magazines out there.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Rigs: 1942-2005 from tsinn on Vimeo.

Toxic chemicals in womb

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:08:14 +0000

As part of CNN’s “Toxic America” special, Sanjay Gupta reports that over 200 toxic chemicals have been found in the cord blood of babies. The health effects of this Toxic Soup remain largely unknown.

Bhopal Update

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:17:34 +0000

According to the BBC News today: “A court in the Indian city of Bhopal has sentenced eight people to two years each in jail over a gas plant leak that killed thousands of people in 1984. The convictions are the first since the disaster at the Union Carbide plant – the world’s worst industrial accident. Bhopal residents describe the impact of the disaster and give their reaction to the sentencing.” American CEO Warren Anderson was let off the hook completely, continuing the misguided legal trend of deifying executives. Read the rest of the story here.

Tony Hayward’s chirping seabirds ad

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:20:36 +0000

So BP went on the offensive this week, launching an ad campaign that extolls its cleanup efforts, complete with chirping seabirds in the background of CEO Tony Hayward’s pompous monologue. “We’ve helped organize the largest environmental response in this nation’s history.” Yes, because you created the largest environmental disaster in this nation’s history! You would think that the thousands of dollars that BP invested in this hot air could have been better spent on the relief effort, or on the welfare of Gulf Coast residents who have lost their livelihoods due to BP’s recklessness.

Below is a video by the National Wildlife Federation featuring still photographs of the Gulf Coast line.