The Big Fix script
Release Date: December 2, 2012 (NY)
Studio: Green Planet Productions
Director: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell
Tickell
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Peter Fonda, Jeff Goodell, Stuart
Smith
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available
Review: Not Available
DVD Review: Not Available
DVD: Not Available
Movie Poster: Not Available
Production Stills: Not Available
Plot Summary: "The Big Fix" is
part daring journalism, part archival investigation and part eco-horror story.
Through interviews with scientists, government officials,
journalists (including Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell who examined the Gulf spill
in his article "The Poisoning"), attorneys (including New Orleans
Toxic Tort attorney Stuart Smith) and Gulf States natives, "The Big
Fix" recounts the events surrounding the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon
drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and paints a disturbing picture of the
aftermath of the largest oil spill in America's history.
"The Big Fix" reveals the powerful political and
corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability
of people and the environment. No matter what the petroleum and government
officials say, the oil is still coming ashore, the seafood industry is wiped
out, and many people of the locals are sick.
Shrimp with no eyes, fish with tumors, fish with oil in their
guts – this disaster is happening right now - once the largest processor of
brown shrimp in the United States, in the film. Up to 30% of the nation's
seafood in a given year comes from Louisiana. Toxicologists studying the fish
from Louisiana waters are finding heightened levels of cancer-causing
carcinogens.
"The Big Fix" also explores the complicit behavior
of the US government in the long-term use of the chemical dispersant, Corexit
9527, a known hemolytic (blood thinner). In an unexpected twist of fate,
Co-Director/Producer Rebecca Harrell Tickell became severely ill after being
exposed to the oil and Corexit mixture while filming. Her health struggle is
cataloged in the film.
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