During this episode of On the Neutral Ground, Victoria and Jason chat with award winning social justice documentary filmmaker, Alex Glustrom.  Alex is the writer, director and editor of the powerful documentary film, Mossville:  When Great Trees Fall, currently on the film festival circuit and winning awards nearly at nearly every festival screening.  Alex discusses how he became a documentary filmmaker, the challenges and also his past projects including Big Charity: The Death of America’s oldest hospital.

Mossville:  When Great Trees Fall is about environmental injustice and how just one man stands in the way of a petrochemical plant expansion, refusing to give up or leave his Louisiana community.  Stacey Ryan Stay’s home in Mossville, a town founded by free slaves is no longer in a neighborhood but within a busy construction site, as a South African company expands their compound of petrochemical plants. They’ve bought out every other resident and cut off his utilities but, even faced with the risk of illness and death from chemical exposure that chased many of his neighbors away, Ryan doesn’t waver in refusing their offers. With an empathetic but rigorous documentary approach, director Alexander Glustrom exposes environmental racism threatening a community founded on resistance.

For more information about Alex and his films, please refer to the following links:

http://www.mossvilleproject.com

https://www.facebook.com/MossvilleProject/

http://www.bigcharityfilm.com