The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports
… The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over … tried and failed to block the showing of the film in the US The documentary Bananas! … The biggest fruit company in the world sued a film-maker for daring to investigate the issue …
Report highlights the lasting impact of The End of the Line in raising awareness of unsustainable fishing practices - and illustrates how radical new film funding models can work
… The End of the Line: how a film changed the way we eat fish Tom Levitt … practices - and illustrates how radical new film funding models can work More than one … according to an evaluation of the film’s impact . The film was the first major …
Emmanuelle Schick Garcia is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it benefits from the contamination it is causing
… is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it … Levitt: Did you have any problems making this film? Any legal challenges from the chemical … taking our license plate numbers when we were filming facilities, even though we were on …
A new Ecologist-produced film, to be screened at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan, highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government
… Peoples Mangroves fppimage.jpg The Ecologist Film Unit team documented powerful testimonies … communities A new Ecologist-produced film, to be screened at the forthcoming … it for wood, honey and food. The Ecologist Film Unit - working in association with the …
Director of 'The Idiot Cycle' claims people are being kept in the dark over the dangers posed by toxins in everyday life - and questions the murky links between UN, WHO and chemical companies
… deprived of data on cancer links to toxins - film maker Tom Levitt | 13th September 2010 … of independent information on cancer risks, film maker Emmanuelle Schick Garcia has … she said. Pollution pays The outspoken film maker also said chemical companies were …
Undercover footage of Portuguese rabbit farms shows the grim reality of intensive factory-style rabbit farming, which may now make a comeback in the UK
… by Ecostorm - the agency behind the Ecologist Film Unit - on behalf of Portuguese pressure … spokesperson. READ MORE... NEWS Ecologist Film Unit journalist beaten by seal hunters Ecologist Film Unit journalist Jim Wickens has been …
Campaign group calls for a consumer boycott of tropical prawns to stop environmental pollution and human rights abuse in Bangladesh
… produced in conjunction with the Ecologist's film partner. Sales of frozen prawns have … In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's … 90,000 km coastline SPECIAL CONTENT EFU Film: Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s …
Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues
… Deforestation sealhuntnamibia.jpg Ecologist Film Unit journalists were attacked in July 2009 as they filmed hunters slaughtering seals on the … and later charged with trespass after filming the slaughter of baby seals in a …
Campaigners and MEPs say legal challenges by hunters and seal traders will not succeed to overturning the new EU wide ban on the trade in seal products
… from the trade in seal fur NEWS Ecologist Film Unit journalist beaten by seal hunters Ecologist Film Unit journalist Jim Wickens has been … and later convicted of trespass as he filmed the slaughter of seals on the Namibian …
Green campaigners reject accusations of failure and point out success of domestic climate legislation, regulations to tackle ozone pollution and growing acceptance from the business community of environmental issues
… got right: activists respond to Channel 4 film Tom Levitt | 4th November 2010 News …
US environmental charity under fire for close links with controversial companies, including Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto and Shell
… after a senior employee was secretly filmed by undercover reporters discussing ways … Don't Panic have produced a twelve-minute film in which they make the allegations (watch … in a relevant conservation programme. Film footage shows the CI employee suggesting …
Increasing density of livestock production and poor biosecurity in Asia is encouraging epidemics, with a new disease emerging every four months, says new International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) report
… Tracy Worcester, producer of Pig Business film Her shocking film alerted unsuspecting consumers to the …
Author at the centre of recent documentary claims more than half of the environmental movement agrees with him that we should embrace genetically modified (GM) crops and nuclear power
… got right: activists respond to Channel 4 film Green campaigners reject accusations of …
Financial speculation in key commodities, like wheat and maize, is being linked to recent volatile food prices but attempts to regulate are being delayed by lobbying from the banking sector. Tom Levitt reports
… known as hedging. VIDEO: Watch an exclusive film on the impact of food speculation in … food prices In a major investigation and film, the Ecologist takes a look at how …
In an exclusive interview Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson tells Tom Levitt why she won't be opposing new nuclear power or selling off any forests... and why she wants to end Westminister's control over renewable energy
… MAKE A DIFFERENCE Undercurrents: the campaign film pioneers still setting the agenda Eifion … producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and …
Main ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is being linked to cancer, birth defects and Parkinson's disease and should be banned, according to campaigners behind new report
… and in farmers’ fields NEWS ANALYSIS The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over …
Chemical giant dismisses allegations that it inflitrated Greenpeace in an effort to undermine its direct action campaigns
… on legal environmental protest The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how … campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a message across …
The West is exporting diabetes and heart disease to poor countries, along with the processed foods that line the shelves of global supermarkets warns UN advisor Olivier De Schutter
… Tom Levitt reports INVESTIGATION Exclusive film Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation …
The latest film from the 'Story of Stuff' team focuses on consumer electronics and the problems of waste, recycling and toxic components
… Phones storyofelectronics.jpg The latest film from the 'Story of Stuff' team focuses on … recyclable and toxic-free products. Filmmaker and activist Emmanuelle Schick has …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
… Banks Trading Politics And Economics Ecolgist Film Unit Video ecostorm_800px 600px.jpg A …
Urgent calls from health experts to reduce antibiotic use on intensive farms are largely resisted by the agribusiness food lobby, who downplay its role in the spread of antibiotic resistance in humans. Tom Levitt reports
… problems with meat consumption. Now a new film, Planeat, presents a health case to … for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates …
In producing nuclear power we are taking the benefits today but leaving the burden of cleaning up waste and accident risks to future generations, argues a study on nuclear ethics
… Michael Madsen, who has made a documentary film, 'Into Eternity', about the construction …