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Bhopal: The Search for Justice
200452 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Lindalee TraceyPeter Raymont
Production: Peter RaymontHarold CrooksLindalee TraceyÉric MichelClaude Bonin
Script: Peter RaymontHarold CrooksLindalee Tracey
Produced by White Pine Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Société Radio-Canada, with the financial participation of The Canadian Television Fund, The Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit and the Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund, and in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked poisonous methyl isocyanate gas, killing at least 15,000 men, women and children. Hundreds of thousands more were permanently maimed. Union Carbide is now owned by the Dow Chemical Corporation.
Twenty years later, amid charges of corruption, graft and suppression of medical and environmental research about the tragedy, the victims are still not adequately compensated and cared for. Journalist Raajkumar Keswani, whose prediction of the Union Carbide disaster proved prophetic, documents the legacy and introduces us to the leading scientists, doctors and activists in his search for justice.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > Developing CountriesPollutionSocial and Industrial Development
- Developing Countries > Environment and ConservationHealth and IllnessIndia, Nepal and Pakistan
- Industry and Commerce > Environmental IssuesForeign CountriesHealth and Safety
- Law and Crime > Human Rights
Credits
- director
- Lindalee Tracey
- Peter Raymont
- producer
- Peter Raymont
- Harold Crooks
- Lindalee Tracey
- Claude Bonin
- writer
- Peter Raymont
- Harold Crooks
- Lindalee Tracey
- executive producer
- Éric Michel
- associate producer
- Nadeem Uddin
- photography
- Walter Corbett
- sound recording
- Bruce Cameron
- editor
- Michael Fuller
- original music
- John Welsman
- musician
- Ron Allen
- Gurpreet Singh Chana
- Cherie Camp
- original music mixing engineer
- Brian Nevin
- narrator
- Lindalee Tracey
- sound editing
- Jakob Theissen
- online editor
- Tim Richards
- legal affairs
- Mark LeBlanc
- business affairs
- Mark LeBlanc
- production manager
- Paul RW Smith
- assistant to the producer
- Kate Russell
- graphics
- Philip Wilson
- line production
- Joanne Carrière
- administrator
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- administrator - assistant
- Isabelle de Bellefeuille
- Brigitte Couture
- legal counsel
- Gylane St-Georges
- mix engineer
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- post-production
- Claude Cardinal
- interpreter
- Nadeem Uddin
- location manager
- Nadeem Uddin
- archival footage research
- Nisha Pahuja
Awards
- Award for Best Medium Length Film - with a cash parize of 25,000Real (9,500$Cdn approx.)FICA - International Festival of Environmental Films & Videos