Saturday Short

Today's short is the official trailer for the documentary Unfractured, which features environmental activist Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., as she and other anti-fracking protestors take on the oil and gas industry in upstate New York. (A natural gas-extraction process, fracking contaminates the environment with toxic chemicals that harm humans' health.) Steingraber is a biologist, public speaker, poet and writer, and cancer survivor. She co-founded New Yorkers Against Fracking and Concerned Health Professionals of New York.

Produced and directed by Canadian Chanda Chevannes, the documentary, which premiered last year at the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, currently is screening around the country. Upcoming screenings are scheduled in the United States at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, April 4; and Martin Koppel Theater, Chenango Arts, Norwich, New York, April 19. Another screening is scheduled at Fast-Forward 2018 Eco-Film Festival, Erin, ON, April 25. The film is being shown this afternoon at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C., as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.

Unfractured on FaceBook and Vimeo

Sandra Steingraber on FaceBook 

New Yorkers Against Fracking on FaceBook 

Americans Against Fracking