Travels and Travails
Have just come back from India filming my first ever documentary (by filming, I mean shooting, producing, directing, presenting, editing, everything myself) on suicides, pesticides and fashion. Working...
View ArticleIndian Cotton Farmer Suicides, Pesticides and Fashion
Up to 26 Indian cotton farmers a day commit suicide by drinking pesticides to kill themselves out of debt. This taster is for Dirty White Gold, a film by Leah Borromeo about cotton, chemicals and...
View ArticleWoo! Press….
For those of you aware of my latest project, a documentary on Indian cotton farmer suicides, pesticides and fashion tentatively called Dirty White Gold, you’ll be aware I’ve re-edited a new taster for...
View ArticleThe Cotton Film: Dirty White Gold update
Just back from Geneva. Endosulfan was listed under Annex A of the Stockholm Convention for Persistent Organic Pollutants. This means all use and production of this very deadly and debilitating poison...
View Articledow chemicals [doh chemicals]
"DOW...doh!" image as thought up by me and crafted on mike cupcake‘s computer as i was schlepping about soho with a gentleman at the time. if you need an explanation, dow chemicals are one of the...
View Articlesome trying trial pieces to camera
as shot in Vidharba, India on a research trip for my feature documentary on Indian cotton farmer suicides, pesticides and fashion…. dirty white gold won’t be your friday night date film but, with a bit...
View Articlethe cotton film: dirty white gold | crowdfund
At last – it lives! We launched the crowdfund for our film The Cotton Film: Dirty White Gold today. The journey starts with nearly 300,000 Indian farmers who have killed themselves to escape debt. At...
View Articlesuicide – the only way out of debt?
Nearly 300,000 Indian farmers killed themselves to get out of debt between 1995 and 2011. In the state of Maharashtra alone, 4,453 people committed suicide in 2006. That’s around one every eight...
View Articlewhy are Indian farmers committing suicides over their debts?
Every day, I Google “farmer suicides” and every day I see a new entry. I have a mantra which riffs on this: “Nearly 300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide to get out of debt since 1995. In the...
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