Silent Snow
lenght 71 min.
year 2011
producer drsFILM
director Jan van den Berg
script Jan van den Berg & Pipaluk Knudsen Ostermann
broadcaster BOS
synopsis An Inuit search for solutions to the chemical poisoning of the world.
A silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland. Chemical residues from all over the world accumulate here invisibly, poisoning humans and animals. Via currents in the ocean and attached to snow, pesticides like DDT are carried northbound into Inuit land, causing illness and premature death. Silent Snow is a documentary project investigating, together with the people who are affected the most, what turns out to be a structural pollution of the entire global environmental system.
Documentary
year 2011
producer drsFILM
director Jan van den Berg
script Jan van den Berg & Pipaluk Knudsen Ostermann
broadcaster BOS
synopsis An Inuit search for solutions to the chemical poisoning of the world.
A silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland. Chemical residues from all over the world accumulate here invisibly, poisoning humans and animals. Via currents in the ocean and attached to snow, pesticides like DDT are carried northbound into Inuit land, causing illness and premature death. Silent Snow is a documentary project investigating, together with the people who are affected the most, what turns out to be a structural pollution of the entire global environmental system.
 | Boris Everts | editing |
| Boris Everts | editing |
 | Jan van den Berg | directing |
