Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery

198126 min 50 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Seaton Findlay

Production: James Turpie

Script: Michal Anne Crosley

Commissioned by NFB to Crawley Films Ltd. for Environment Canada.

This title is an acquisition.

Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery

A film intended to increase public awareness about a growing and serious threat to North America's environment. Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery looks at the impact of acid precipitation on our woods, waters and wildlife. Graphs, maps and scientific experiments serve to examine what acid rain is, where it originates and how its insidious advance threatens not only the natural life around us, but our man-made environment as well.

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Subject categories

  • Environment and Conservation > Pollution
  • Geography > Environmental IssuesTerritory: ProtectedTerritory: UrbanWeather and Climatology

Credits

director
Seaton Findlay
executive producer
James Turpie
script
Michal Anne Crosley
camera
John Walker
Bill Kerrigan
Rick Mason
editing
Paul Harris
re-recording
Robert Leclair
Shalini Kelly
narrator
Earl Pennington

Awards

  • Honorable MentionNational Educational Media Network Competition
  • Golden Babe Award - Category: Science Chicagoland Educational Film Festival
  • AMC Dead Fish Award given by the Appalachian Mountain Club "for the efforts to stop fish from being killed and to stop acid rain".Appalachian Mountain Club
  • Honorable Mention - Category: Social Issues / Conservation of Natural Resources International Film and Video Festival
  • AWRA'S Award of MeritEducational Water Film Festival
  • Certificate of Excellence - Category: PollutionAudubon International Environmental Film Festival
  • First PrizeFilm Festival of the Society of American Foresters
  • Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Environmental IssuesItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
  • Diploma of HonourPopular Science Film Festival
  • Finalist Award - Category: Ecology-EnvironmentItinerant - International CINDY Competition
  • Gold Plaque - Category: Science - Environment - EcologyINTERCOM International Communication Film and Video Festival
  • First Prize - with a cash prize of 10,000FFRencontres internationales de l'environnement et de la nature