Guest Highlight: Judith Helfand
Filmmaker, activist and educator Judith Helfand is best known for her ability to take the dark, cynical worlds of chemical exposure and heedless corporate behavior and make them personal, resonant, highly charged, and entertaining. Her films, The Uprising of ’34, the Sundance-award-winning Blue Vinyl (nominated for two Emmy’s), and its Peabody-award-winning prequel A Healthy Baby Girl (a five-year video-diary about her experience with DES related cancer), explore home, class, corporate accountability, intergenerational relationships and the ever shrinking border between what is personal and what is a critical part of the public record. www.judithhelfand.com
Judith Helfand appearances on KPFK
Bernadette Armstrong is the Program Director of the Artivist Film Festival and is a independent writer/film maker passionate about animal rights. Professor Dr. Sheila Laffey is the director of a film focusing on the Ballona Wetlands titled THE LAST STAND- HEROES AT BALLONA WETLANDS. Morgan Spurlock is a filmmaker and Sundance 2004 Best Director prize winner for his film SUPER SIZE ME. Judith Helfand is the director of BLUE VINYL and A HEALTHY BABY GIRL. Today she talks about her experience with understanding the relationship between consumers and the Vinyl industry, the world’s second largest-selling plastic.