Beautiful Poison
John Sabraw is a renowned artist who goes caving in waders to extract pollution from rivers and turn chemicals into pigments in a former coal town. Not only does he create artworks exploding with color, he’s building a multi-million dollar carbon-neutral factory that will expand this process to create paint for industrial use, restoring miles of waterways and cutting carbon in one stroke.
Filmmaker: Dan Ashby
Running Time: 12 mins
Language: English with Open Captions
Type: Short
Dan Ashby is an award-winning environment journalist, who has overseen film, television and audio productions around the world. His focus is on storytelling that transcends traditional climate topics, revealing how the planetary crisis intersects with every part of our lives. He forged his career as a TV correspondent in East Africa and Russia, exposing ivory trafficking networks, dynamite fishing gangs, and rosewood logging, before launching Smoke Trail Productions – to tell gripping environmental stories in new ways.
