Documentary Film Screened for MPs & Delegates Before INC-4 Global Plastics Treaty NegotiationMultiple Visual Events Happening Downtown Ottawa April 21st - 23rd

Microplastics aren’t just an environmental issue but are also an urgent health crisis. Only 10% of plastic has been recycled, the other 90% still exists somewhere on Earth degrading slowly into smaller and smaller “microplastics.” These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in bodies of water, and mix into the soil. Microplastics have been found inside the human body.

The feature documentary Plastic People, by award-winning documentary production company White Pine Pictures, investigates the global addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics to human health. Coincidentally, this year the theme of Earth Day, April 22nd, is PLANET vs PLASTICS.

What:

• Visual events will happen in Ottawa from branded street teams with walking billboards to guerilla-style video projections on some iconic downtown buildings and a live artist painting on Earth Day outside 700 Sussex in the amphitheater outside Metropolitan Brasserie with some free-style rappers joining later in the day. 

• Plastic People will be screened privately for delegates and members of parliament at the upcoming, critical, next round of United Nations negotiations for a new Global Plastics Treaty in Ottawa. 

When and Where:

Sunday April 21st 10 am - 1 pm 7 - 11 pm

Walking billboards will join the “March to End the Plastic Era” at the Centennial Flame walking to Shaw Centre Video Projections - for exact location contact Mary Jelley

Monday April 22nd 12 - 8 pm 5 - 6 pm 8 - 10 pm 8:30 - 11 pm

Live Artist Robbie Lariviere creating large scale canvases outside Metropolitain Brasserie - 700 Sussex Street Baba Brinkman & Dizzy Senze “Freestyle Rap Up” join Robbie at 700 Sussex Screening for INC-4 delegates, policymakers, industry leaders and academia at the Bytowne Theatre Video Projections - for exact location contact Mary Jelley

Tuesday April 23rd 11 am - 2 pm 7 - 11 pm

Walking Billboards attend "Plastic Action Zone” at NAC Video Projections - for exact location contact Mary Jelley

Available for interviews April 20 - 22:

• Rick Smith, Plastic People Executive Producer, pollution expert and best-selling co-author of “Slow Death by Rubber Duck”. The movie originated with an OpED Rick wrote for the Globe and Mail in which he tested his own body for microplastic particles

• Ben Addelman, Plastic People director, also known for his work as a cinematographer, screenwriter and sound designer

• Ziya Tong, Plastic People co-director, science journalist and author

Media Contact Mary Jelley - mary@kowpr.com , 613-791-6703