Tag: Toxic playground
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Toxic Playground goes east
Laika’s award-winning documentary Toxic Playground is now visible in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It’s the company CNEX Studio Corporation that has bought the right to broadcast the film in these countries. The film tells the story of the hundreds of children in the village Arica in Chile who has been seriously ill from the toxic…
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Toxic playground
<iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/144613059″ width=”740″ height=”417″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> A unique story about waste business, responsibility and guilt. During the 80’s the Swedish mining company Boliden sent almost 20 000 tonnes of toxic waste to the Chilean city Arica. Today, hundreds of children are sick, they call them “Blybarnen” (The Lead children). Lars, a young filmmaker…
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Big media interest for Boliden Lawsuit
A group of Swedish, Chilean and American lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Boliden for the toxic wastes that were dumped in northern Chile for about thirty years ago. What made the process up and running was the Laika movie Blybarnen (Lars Edman and William Johansson) as shown on SVT in 2009 and then in…