Plastic Planet
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Plastic Planet |
| Original title | Plastic Planet |
| Country of production |
Austria , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Boats |
| script | Werner Boats |
| production |
Thomas Bogner , Daniel Zuta |
| music | The Orb |
| camera | Thomas Kirschner |
| cut |
Ilana Goldschmidt , Cordula Werner , Tom Pohanka |
Plastic Planet is a feature documentary by director Werner Boats . The film shows the dangers of plastic and synthetic plastics in general in their various forms and their worldwide distribution.
action
Starting with a biographical look back at his childhood - to his grandfather, who was managing director of the German Interplastik-Werke in the 1960s - Boats draws a bow to the present, in which plastic products are omnipresent.
Boats travels the world, observing and questioning people living in the midst of plastic: from families in their single-family houses in Austria and the USA to those in the simplest huts in Calcutta . He conducts interviews with speakers from the plastics industry and with scientists who talk about the health risks of additives - especially plasticizers .
Boats shows how ubiquitous plastic has become in all its forms and how plastic waste is distributed to the most remote areas of the world. He shows this exemplarily with the pollution of the desert in Morocco and the plastic waste in the Pacific , where the particles of decomposing plastic waste are mistaken for plankton and eaten by marine life , which can lead to their death.
Filming locations and production
2005
- Pre-shooting in Innsbruck, the Moroccan Sahara and the USA ( Grand Junction "House Clearing", interview with Dr. Theo Colborn )
2006
- Venice, Porto Marghera , interview with Public Prosecutor Felice Casson
2007-2008
- First official filming phase from spring in London (Susan Jobling, intersex fish)
- Finland
- Vienna ( OMV , Borealis , Federal Environment Agency )
- Japan ( Tokyo , Tsushima , Minamata , Kumamoto )
- China ( Shanghai )
- India (Calcutta)
- USA ( Los Angeles , Pullman, Cincinnati , Columbia)
- Pacific Ocean ( Charles Moore's Boat)
A second unit shot additional material in Morocco and Uganda (Kampala). In Europe, the film was shot in Germany (Düsseldorf, Guben), Italy (Novara), Belgium (Brussels, Waterloo) and most recently again in Austria (Dachstein, Vienna).
Last day of shooting in October 2008, followed by a year of post-production .
2009
The premiere of the film took place in the Gartenbaukino in Vienna on September 15th, 2009, the public release in Austria was on September 18th.
Awards
- 2010: Romy film and television award for best cinema documentary
- 2010: "Honorable Mention" at the International Documentary Competition of the XIII. Environmental Film Festivals Cinemambiente
- 2010: Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden : Predicate particularly valuable .
literature
- Pretting, Gerhard; Boats, Werner: Plastic Planet: The dark side of plastics . Orange-press publishing house, Freiburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-936086-47-8 .
Web links
- Plastic Planet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (Austria)
- Official website (Germany)
- Plastic Planet - Film of the Month February 2010 at kinofenster.de, ed. from the Federal Agency for Civic Education and Vision Cinema .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Plastic Planet . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Festival Cinemambiente - Winners 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jury statement of the film evaluation office
