Documentary Feature | Additional Editor | Post-Production
74-year-old Sharon Lavigne is on a mission to protect her health and her home from the threat of industrial pollution. This once quiet but ever-faithful grandmother of 12 is from a small rural farm-town along an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River where toxic emissions have caused so much sickness, it’s earned the nickname “Cancer Alley.”
When she learns that a foreign petrochemical corporation plans to build the largest plastics plant in North America just two miles from her front door, she thrusts herself into activism and begins to organize, demanding accountability from industry and elected officials at every level of government.
The irreparable damage that’s already been done to her lived environment is apparent and palpable. Yet Sharon remains certain that saving her community from industry is God’s calling on her life, and despite losing friends, love, and many battles in the righteous war she’s waging for justice, she fights on because the stakes are too high to lose heart.
Directed by Alexandra Norris. Produced by Cora Atkinson.
Edited by David Zieff.
