MERCURY UPRISING

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Featuring interviews with forest ecologists Tom Lovejoy and Luis Fernandez, along with the Peruvian Minister of the Environment Manuel Pulgar Vidal, this companion piece to the award-winning documentary, Amazon Gold, delves deeper into the issues of climate change, accelerated deforestation of the Amazon rain forest, illegal gold mining and the devastating effects of mercury, the dangerous toxin used in the mining process.

Directed by Sarah duPont and Emir Cerman.

Produced by Jason Parks, Mirek Vana and Heather Mytelka.