LEAD AND COPPER: A Documentary Screening

DOORS AT 2PM | SCREENING AT 2:30PM

SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE

RUNTIME: 89 MINUTES

15 MINUTE Q&A TO FOLLOW

LEAD AND COPPER:

AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE WORST PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

On April 24th, 2014, Flint, Michigan, switched water sources to the Flint River, a cost-saving measure enacted by former Governor Rick Snyder and his appointed Emergency Manager. This decision poisoned a city that had already been neglected for decades.

Flint isn't America's first major lead crisis, and it will not be the last.

The film investigates how city, state, and federal policies contributed to environmental crises like those experienced in Flint, Newark, and Washington, D.C.

8 years in the making, LEAD AND COPPER has screened both domestically and internationally at over a dozen festivals, winning several awards, including:

Best Feature Documentary & Grand Jury Prize - Madison Film Festival

Best Concept - Grand Rapids Film Festival

Best Documentary - Cannes World Film Festival

Best Environmental Documentary - Mannheim Arts and Film Festival

Featuring interviews with:

Leon El Alamin (M.A.D.E. Institute)

Mayor Ras Baraka (Newark)

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)

Marsha Coleman- Adebayo (EPA)

Dr. Marc Edwards (Virginia Tech)

Yvette Jordan (Newark Education Workers Caucus)

Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI)

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI)

Tim Matin (M.A.D.E. Institute)

Mayor Sheldon Neeley (current mayor of Flint)

Mayor Dayne Walling (Flint mayor 2009-15)

Lee Anne Walters

Janay Young (Mission to Protect Flint)

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