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Genre/Form: | Documentary films Films for the hearing impaired Video recordings for the hearing impaired Nonfiction films Documentaries and Factual Films Feature films Environmental films Documentaires Films autres que de fiction Films pour personnes handicapées auditives Films environnementaux |
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Material Type: | Partial animation, Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Connacher; Cryptic Moth Productions.; Bullfrog Films. |
ISBN: | 1594587957 9781594587955 |
OCLC Number: | 262511012 |
Language Note: | In English. Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. |
Notes: | Copyright date on credit frame: 2007; copyright date on disc: 2008. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007. Special feature: 53 min. version of the film. |
Credits: | Photographed by Ian Connacher, Gad Reichman ; edited by Martyn Iannece, Gad Reichman, Kevin Rollins. |
Performer(s): | Host, Ian Connacher. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD. |
Contents: | Plastic ocean -- The age of plastic -- Plastic food chain -- Bird dissection & bioaccumulation -- Recycle this! -- Denmark's example -- TieTek & Agri-Plas -- Patagonia & Interface -- UniqEco Designs -- Third world plastic -- E-waste & plastic bags -- Poison plastic -- Scientific research -- Plastic bottles & antimony -- Farming plastics -- A call to action -- Leading question. |
Series Title: | Footprint program. |
Other Titles: | Rise and demise of a modern miracle |
Responsibility: | [presented by] Cryptic Moth Productions ; produced & directed by Ian Connacher. |
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Educational Media Reviews Online (1)
Addicted to Plastic

This is a superb production. It is well-scripted and beautifully filmed, with interesting camera effects including the occasional use of a fisheye lens. Humor, funky music and visual aids such as a wayward cartoon nurdle named “Ned,” make it entertaining to all ages and real-life examples give immediacy to the story. Finding plastic bits in the belly of a seabird is tragic, but finding companies that have developed innovative uses for recycled plastic is uplifting.
The DVD is eminently flexible. It offers not only a table of contents with scene selection, but also two different versions of the film. One version is 85 minutes long and the other is 53 minutes, perfect for classroom use. Subtitles can be turned on for viewers who are deaf or hard-of hearing.
Near the end of the film, the narrator concludes, “It’s not the consumer’s fault, and I don’t think the producers set out to create toxic materials that would never go away.” This is a message we are meant to remember, and it should leave us all with a desire to make a change.
This DVD is entertaining and informative. It is highly recommended for middle-school through adult viewers.
Awards
- Audience Award, Special Jury Award, Amazonas Film Festival, Manaus, Brazil
- Runner Up, Environmental Film Audience Award, and Finalist, Overall Audience Award, Vancouver International Film Festival
- Coup de Coeur Award, Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Paris


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- Déchets industriels.
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