The Accidental Environmentalist: Catherine Flowers

Year
2018
Country
USA
Duration:
10 mins

Overview

After visiting a raw sewage site in her native Lowndes County, Ala., Catherine Flowers, founder and executive director of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise, contracts a mysterious rash. Flowers, whose work focuses on poverty and race, wonders if it’s a disease American doctors don’t test for. Soon she — and 34.5 percent of county residents tested — are diagnosed with hookworm, a sewage-harbored disease long thought eradicated in the U.S. Galvanized, Flowers brings the issue to the worldwide stage — affecting change and adding environmentalist to her bona fides.

Production Team

Director
Ellen Esling

Festival Screenings

Featured in the 2019 Mountainfilm Festival.
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