Original title: “Desierto verde”
Green Desert is a feature-length documentary about the production of food that reveals current processes in the farming industry, posing the need to shine a spotlight on the problems associated with this business, like deforestation, the desertification of soils and pollution from herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, commonly known as “agrotoxics”.
At Ituzaingó Anexo, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Córdoba city in Argentina, bordering soy fields, hundreds of people die of cancer due to pesticide poisoning. Concerned about their families’ and community’s health, a group of women starts to get together to take joint action. Once the “map of death” they draw reaches the public, an unprecedented trial begins for the first time.
Production Director: PAULA ASPRELLA
Executive Producers: ULISES DE LA ORDEN, CARLOS BARRIENTOS
Music: ERNESTO SNAJER
Sound Director: BASAVILBASO
Director of Photography: ALEJANDRO REYNOSO
Script: MARIANO STAROSTA
Editor: GERMÁN CANTORE (SAE)
Director: ULISES DE LA ORDEN