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Escaping from History
199451 min 58 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Josh Freed
Production: Marrin CanellCatherine Mullins (Green Lion Productions Inc.)Kent MartinBob CulbertMark StarowiczDarce Fardy
Script: Gwynne Dyer
Produced by Green Lion Productions Inc. in association with the CBC, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Société générale des industries culturelles - Québec, and the NFB, and with the financial assistance of Rogers Telefund.
Mexico City--the most polluted and fastest growing city on the planet--is a sobering foretaste of what may await us all. Looking at the effects of industrialization on Mexico, and the impact of its development on the rest of the world, Escaping from History finds reasons for optimism. But it's a tough equation: for the Third World to have more, the First World will have to get used to having less.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Economic and Industrial DevelopmentEnvironment and ConservationMexico
- Economics > Foreign Countries
- Social Issues > Foreign SocietiesTechnology and Society
Credits
- director
- Josh Freed
- producer
- Marrin Canell
- Catherine Mullins
- Kent Martin
- Bob Culbert
- Mark Starowicz
- Darce Fardy
- executive producer
- Catherine Mullins
- co-executive producer
- Stephen Low
- script
- Gwynne Dyer
- cinematography
- Georges Archambault
- sound
- Yvon Benoît
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- Osvaldo Montes
- host
- Gwynne Dyer