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impression was that the book was very They’re collaborating with educators, acvisually written; that it was very cinematic. tivists and professionals to create resources What really interested me in making the to guide the use of the film in their work. film was Sandra’s unique perspective—the “The film doesn’t attempt to tell people blend of the personal and the scientific. It what they should do. Hopefully it inspires was unusual and captivating. I wanted the people to want to get involved and do film to honor Sandra’s different perspecsomething. But it’s not prescriptive,” says tives and her poet’s voice.” Chevannes. “What a person can In 1964, the U.S. Surgeon do is very tightly tied to who General warned—on the basis “To ignore the they are—what their talents, of good but partial evidence— scientific evidence skills and interests are—and also that smoking causes lung canwhere they live—what specific is to knowingly cer. Proof for a link between issues are in their own commusmoking and lung cancer was permit thousands nity and what the opportunities not demonstrated until 1996, of unnecessary are for them to get involved. three decades later. SteingraWe’ve just completed an eduber would like to bring that illnesses and cational DVD of the film with same precautionary approach deaths each year.” guides for community involveto other carcinogens, known ment and a guide for educators and suspected. “There are individuals who who wish to use the film in their teaching.” claim that links between cancer and enviKathryn Gilje, director of Pesticide ronmental contamination are unproven Action Network and Jeanne Rizzo, R.N., and unprovable. There are others who be- CEO of Breast Cancer Fund are humbled lieve that we are obligated to act... To ig- to be by Sandra’s side. “We stand ready to nore the scientific evidence is to knowingly engage, mobilize and agitate—to create permit thousands of unnecessary illnesses public and political will for change. We and deaths each year,” says Steingraber. The stand together.” ✹ filmmakers are dedicated to creating a year- Paddle alongside Annie at Annie@dirtdiva.com. long endeavor to bring Living Downstream into theaters, homes, classrooms, town Comment on this story in TownSquare, at ›› pacificsun.com halls and libraries, churches and hospitals.
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