SHADOW OF A GIANT Short Film – Playing at the May 26th Doc Short Film Fest

RSVP for the Documentary Short Film Festival – Thursday May 26, 2016. Carlton Cinemas, downtown Toronto. 9pm

Playing at the festival: 

SHADOW OF A GIANT, 29min, Canada, Documentary
Directed by Clark Ferguson

Produced by Lesley Johnson

Distributed by VTape http://www.vtape.org/

Shadow of a Giant tells the story of one Canada’s largest environmental disasters, Yellowknife’s Giant Mine. Buried in collapsing chambers within the city of Yellowknife, and beside the 9th largest lake in the world, sits 237,000 tons of the highly toxic contaminant, arsenic trioxide, a byproduct of the defunct gold mine. The city of Yellowknife and the surrounding aboriginal communities depend on a remediation plan that will refrigerate the arsenic into place, until a permanent solution can be found. Shadow of a Giant tells the story of Giant through the people who live on top of it and call it home. From the remediation (clean up) team who work to…