Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics

Humanity’s relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health. 

SYNOPSIS

Are we becoming plastic people? This ground-breaking feature documentary investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. Almost every bit of plastic ever made ends up ground down into “microplastics”. Ziya Tong, author and science journalist, makes it personal by visiting leading scientists and undergoing, for the first time on camera, experiments in her home, on her food, and on her body.

Theme(s): , Environnement

DETAILS

Director | , Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong
Year | , 2024
Country | , Canada
Duration | 84 minutes
Original language | , English
Subtitles | , French
Sound design | Daniel Pellerin
Music | Justin Small, Ohad Benchetrit
Editing | Ania Smolenskaia
Cinematographer | Roger Singh
Colorist | Igor Petrof
Producer | Stephen Paniccia
Producer | Vanessa Dylyn
Distributor | Vicky Ryan

DIRECTOR

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Ben Addelman

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Ben Addelman makes documentary films, television, and commercials. He is the director and producer of four award-winning feature documentaries. These films have all screened in competition at major festivals including Sundance, Hot Docs, Edinburgh, Human Rights Watch NYC, Durban, Whistler and many more. His work has been broadcast on Apple TV+, Disney +, Netflix, BBC, Viceland, CBC, Sundance Channel, National Geographic, and others.

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Ziya Tong

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Ziya Tong is an award-winning author and broadcaster, best known for her work with Discovery’s flagship science show, Daily Planet, and NOVA ScienceNow on PBS. She is the author of the best-selling book The Reality Bubble, which was shortlisted for Canada’s most prestigious non-fiction literary prize, and won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing. Ziya served as the Vice Chair of WWF Canada and currently serves as a trustee of WWF International.

CAREER

SXSW · Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival · DOXA - Documentary Film Festival Vancouver · Sheffield DocFest · Lunenburg Doc Fest · Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1 | 

17 July 2025 pm31 21h00

Parc Molson 

A discussion with Anne-Marie Boulay, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, General Director of CIRAIG, Canada Research Chair on the Environmental Impact of Plastics will follow the screening. 

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