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Adventurous Canary interviews MCS researcher Martin Pall
Posted on Oct 24, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Kimberly Shaw, MCS, Media/Videos
Interview with Martin Pall.
Post by Kimberly Shaw.
I had the privilege and honor to meet and interview Professor Martin Pall today for my documentary film on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. The interview went wonderfully well. His research is groundbreaking and really changes the tide in the scientific world in regards to MCS!
Come visit me at my blogs Adventurous Canary and Serendipity. Learn more about my documentary film at Adventurous Canary Productions.
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Documentary film: Allergic to the 21st Century
Posted on Oct 02, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Disability Rights, MCS, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
Videos: Documentary on Electromagnetic Sensitivity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity made for United Kingdom’s Channel-4.
“Allergic to the 21st Century” is produced and directed by Anne-Claire Pilley and features Sarah Dacre (at left), Roger Moller and Adrian Gray.
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Interview for documentary film on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Posted on Sep 19, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Kimberly Shaw, MCS, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
I was interviewed this week for film that will delve into the often overlooked and misunderstood condition of chemical sensitivity.
Kimberly Shaw came to my home on Wednesday and interviewed me for her documentary film on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. I loved meeting her and her husband. They were so very kind and patient with me during the interview!
I loved showing them my MCS-safe home and gardens, and talking with them about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and the impact of it on all our lives. On the previous day, I’d put out requests through our social network and Facebook for topics that the flock wanted me to discuss. There were over 50 responses altogether! I think I covered just about everything that was suggested over the course of the interview.
It’s an honor to be included in the documentary and I think Kimberly is on her way to a successful and much needed film. Brava!
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Documentary film: Crude
Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Environment, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
A true story about systematic poisoning.
As someone with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, I understand completely the statement in this trailer, “These people have been systematically poisoned.” Products containing petrochemicals are a big problem for people with MCS. We also know well the statement, “When you look at the science, they cannot really prove their case.” Bull dinkies. The science is there, we just need it to be recognized and used as a foundation for making policy regarding toxic chemicals, including oil.
It is a government’s responsibility to protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens. Period.
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Documentary film: No Impact Man
Posted on Sep 01, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Environment, Media/Videos
Author Colin Beavan, in research for his new book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. Laura Gabbert and Justin Scheins film provides a front row seat into the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colins and Michelles struggle with this radical lifestyle change.
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Breathtaking documentary on the state of the planet: HOME
Posted on Aug 18, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Environment, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
Don’t miss this film! HOME. It’s available to watch in its entirety at YouTube.
Here’s the trailer:
Click here to watch the film in its entirety, 1 hour, 33 minutes. Be sure to click on the icon at the bottom right of the box for full view.
TO DEBATE AND TAKE ACTION TOGETHER ON THE GOODPLANET FUNDATION FORUM : http://www.goodplanet.org/en
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film. HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.Yann Arthus-Bertrand, GoodPlanet Fundation President
HOME is a carbon offset movie
Subtitles : http://www.goodplanet.org/I…
The movie will be available until July 15th.
Website: http://www.home-2009.com
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French film: Our Children Will Accuse Us
Posted on Aug 05, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Environment, Government Regulation, Media/Videos, Social Justice
French movie: Nos Enfants Nous Accuseront, Our Children Will Accuse Us (with English subtitles) about the affects of agricultural chemicals on children.
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Adventurous canary to make film about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Posted on Jul 06, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Kimberly Shaw, MCS, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
Film will delve into the often overlooked and misunderstood condition of chemical sensitivity.
Adventurous Canary Productions announces the making of a film about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Filmmaker Kimberly Shaw was diagnosed with MCS in the mid-1990s. She has a Bachelor of Science in Natural Health and is currently earning a master of science degree.
This film project will produce both short and feature-length documentaries about real people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Our purpose is to create awareness with the hope of inspiring change.
No longer confined to laboratories, chemicals today make our food prettier, our perfumes and personal care products cheaper, and our lawns and golf courses pest and weed-free. We are increasingly surrounded by authorized and unauthorized chemicals which not only impact our environment, but also directly impact us. While most are unaware, there are some who are increasingly sensitive that live as canaries among us.
This film will delve into an often overlooked and misunderstood condition of chemical sensitivity, explaining what MCS is and how it originates, what its diverse symptoms are and how people deal with it in their everyday lives. The documentary will share recent discoveries from health care professionals and MCS experts while taking a personal and compassionate look at the modern day canaries in our chemical coalmine and the “safer” havens they have created to live in.
The film’s working title is Environmentally Not Safe. The filmmakers are looking for people with MCS and experts on the subject to interview. If you would be willing to donate your time for an interview, please contact Kimberly at info@adventurouscanary.com.
Kimberly is a member of The Canary Report’s social network, where she generously shares her knowledge about safe products, housing and other health issues.
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A Chemical Reaction
Posted on Jul 01, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Media/Videos, Products
A Chemical Reaction is a documentary movie scheduled for release in 2009 that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America.
Link to the movie’s website
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Movie: Food, Inc., opening June 12
Posted on Jun 11, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos
We’ve never had food companies this powerful in our history.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
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Super Size Me
Posted on Apr 26, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos
Super Size Me, the movie, now on YouTube in it’s entirety!
This movie can be a life-changing film for some. Two canary wings up!
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry. Rigorously eating a diet of McDonald’s fast food three times a day for a month straight, Spurlock is out to prove the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through its schools, corporations, and politics as seen through the eyes of both ordinary citizens and health advocates.
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New movie coming soon: Black Mold Exposure
Posted on Jan 19, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Media/Videos
The film follows Michael Roland Williams, filmmaker, and Karen Noseff, founder and designer of Fortune Denim, in their struggle to regain their livelihood and well-being after they were unknowingly exposed to high levels of various molds that had infested Karen’s apartment.
(To view trailer, go directly to Black Mold Exposure website.)
Toxic mold exposure is of great concern to the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity community because serious exposure will more than likely trigger full blown MCS. The problem of toxic mold in buildings is extremely serious because there are no federal guidelines about the presence of mold in buildings (including public and private), and most physicians are uneducated about the serious health effects of toxic mold exposure.
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Short film to document housing for people with MCS
Posted on Oct 09, 2008 by Susie Collins in Blog, MCS, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
Here’s the trailer to a short film, not yet finished, called Homesick: Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
The upcoming hour long documentary is produced and written by Susan Abod. You might recognize the name from a post I did yesterday on Abod’s short film Funny You Don’t Look Sick.
The quality of the preview is poor; I look forward to the finished work!
Homesick: Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities is an hour long video documentary produced and written by Susan Abod that is now in the process of completion. In Homesick, Susan goes on the road to find out how other people around the country are coping with MCS and dealing with the difficult problem of finding safe housing. She visits their homes and witnesses their daily struggles. They come from all walks of life and live in diverse dwellings that include tents, a house on stilts and a teepee.
Susan’s own journey as a person with MCS traveling from home to home is the connecting thread between these stories. These poignant portraits and her narrative provide a unique, compassionate and even at times humorous perspective on this growing crisis.
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Update
It’s been seven years since the footage [in the clip above] was first taken. Susan’s own health and housing crises interrupted her work on Homesick. Susan recently moved to the Santa Fe area to see if it would improve her own failing health. Yet, finding safe housing still eludes her. In the meantime, she has reconnected with many of the people she originally interviewed and has learned how they have been managing over the years. Susan will be weaving these updated stories along with her own to complete Homesick.
Link to learn more about the film
Link to YouTube clip
Thanks, Linda!
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Food matters
Posted on Oct 02, 2008 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos, Susie Collins
I’m curious: Does your diet impact your chemical sensitivity? Do you eat organic? Do you try to eat the most nutritious food possible? I’d love to hear your comments on this.
Here’s an interesting interview at Common Ground of two filmmakers about their documentary Food Matters.
Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures, people continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and everyday maladies.
Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is not helping the situation. In a personal quest of discovery, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch set out on an independent mission to uncover the wholesome truth, ultimately producing and directing the documentary film Food Matters.
The film seeks to uncover the business of disease and, at the same time, explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of illness. The Food Matters duo has independently funded the film to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world – food matters.
Joseph Roberts: What inspired you to produce Food Matters?
James Colquhoun: The biggest single motivator for us was personal experience. My father was quite unwell at the time. He was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety and depression and not responding well to a raft of medications. He was suffering quite severely from the side effects. That spurred our personal interest in sourcing alternatives for healing and looking at the source of the problem, as opposed to masking symptoms which medications often do.
That led us to study at the Global College of Natural Medicine. We were quite surprised that many others are familiar with the concept that you can eat well to prevent illness. We also discovered that nutritional therapy and detoxification processes can reverse illness – heart disease, diabetes, depression, cancer and mental illness. That was a really big turning point for us and we were quite motivated to inform as wide a population as possible.
JR: Which basic principles did you discover?
JC: Metabolic illnesses play a part in just about every illness that exists – you have an over-toxicity and a lack of nutrients. These can be caused by any number of things, but in order to reverse these illnesses, we need to look at detoxifying the body and replenishing nutrients. Those concepts basically facilitate our bodies to create balance and self-heal. Everyone is familiar with how your body heals itself when you cut yourself or if you have some sort of scar. It’s not such a different concept whether you have a cut on your arm or heart disease or diabetes and so forth. Once you restore balance to the body and give it the environment that creates optimum health and balance, it will regenerate and self-heal.
Link to full interview and more about the film
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The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Posted on Sep 29, 2008 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos
If you haven’t seen it, rent this movie!!!
THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN follows Farmer John’s astonishing journey from farm boy to counter-culture rebel to the son who almost lost the family farm to a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement and founder of one of the nation’s largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms. The result is a tale that ebbs and flows with the fortunes of the soil and revealingly mirrors the changing American times.
Link to clip from the movie
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