British director Anthony Baxter had spent five years documenting the fallout in Flint, Michigan after a manmade disaster threatened a small community
This is, BuzzFeed News noted recently, a time when “only the last 72 hours seem to matter in politics”. It is the age of news as instant gratification, with goldfish-like attention spans measured out in alerts and tweets on unputdownable phones. A week can seem like a year, a year can seem like a lifetime.
So it is reassuring to consider a project such as Flint, a documentary film five years in the making. The director, Anthony Baxter, was holed up for long periods at the Holiday Inn Express in Flint, Michigan, capturing 400 hours of footage about one of the worst human-caused environmental disasters in American history.
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from MetNews https://metnews.pw/it-was-just-left-to-the-people-behind-a-chilling-documentary-on-the-flint-water-crisis/
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