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Something in the Air

A 2001 documentary about the dangers of pesticides used by potato farmers in Prince Edward Island. Filmmaker Sylvie Dauphinais made this documentary to issue a wake-up call about an environmental crisis that put the ill, the elderly and the young at great risk. Includes some subtitles.
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A 2001 documentary about the dangers of pesticides used by potato farmers in Prince Edward Island. Filmmaker Sylvie Dauphinais made this documentary to issue a wake-up call about an environmental crisis that put the ill, the elderly and the young at great risk. Includes some subtitles.

Agriculture Health and Medicine Environment and Conservation All subjects
Our Planet in Focus All channels
  • research
    Sylvie Dauphinais
  • writer
    Sylvie Dauphinais
  • director
    Sylvie Dauphinais
  • script consultant
    Jean-Daniel Lafond
  • participant
    Danny Hendricken
    Sharon Labchuk
    Lamont Sweet
    Raymonde Vautour
    Alexandre Cuffley-Hébert
    Deborah Cuffley-Hébert
    Ocel Dauphinais-Matheson
    Misha Dauphinais-Matheson
    Sarah Eileen Ewing
    Heather Giddings
    Kalyon MacPhail
    Shania MacPhail
    Chalen MacPhail
    Taryn Sear
    Bryce Sear
    Mariah Wedge
    Véronique Zinck
  • director of photography
    Michel La Veaux
  • director of photography - assistant
    François Lejeune
  • location sound
    Richard Lavoie
  • picture editing
    José Heppell
    Natacha Dufaux
  • original music
    Robert M. Lepage
  • musician
    Claude Castonguay
    Gilles Tessier
    Normand Guilbeault
    Eric Longsworth
  • narration - writer
    Sylvie Massicotte
    Sylvie Dauphinais
  • narration translator
    Marie-Andrée Gouin
  • narrator
    Liz MacRae
  • voice recording director
    Hubert Fielden
  • foley
    Lise Wedlock
  • foley assistant
    Richard Auger
  • sound editing
    Francine Poirier
    Olivier Calvert
  • production manager
    Michelle Marcil
  • stills photographer
    Michel La Veaux
  • re-recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • digital editing technical support
    Claude Chevalier
    Phyllis Lewis
    Chaz Oliver
    Danielle Raymond
  • online editing
    Sylvain Desbiens
    Denis Pilon
  • titles
    Louise Overy
  • subtitles
    Claude Dionne
  • technical coordination
    Marysol Moran
  • administration
    Murielle Rioux-Poirier
  • production secretary
    Colette Allain
    Gisèle Brun
    Alvine Losier
  • distribution officer
    Nicole Côté
  • producer
    Diane Poitras

Education

Ages 14 to 17
School subjects
Geography - Territory: Regional Health/Personal Development - Disease Prevention Social Studies - Environmental Challenges
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