COMPANY TOWN
A film by Natalie Kottke-Masocco & Erica Sardarian
Crossett, Arkansas is home to about 5500 people, one Georgia-
Pacific paper and
chemical plant owned by the billionaire Koch brothers, and a startling rate of cancer and illness.
The investigative documentary Company Town follows pastor
David Bouie as he fights to save his community. It offers a rare
look inside a small town ruled by a single company, where the government's environmental protections have been subverted
and ignored, leaving its citizens to take on entrenched powers
in a fight for justice.
Crossett is just one of hundreds of towns across America polluted by big business and failed by local, state and federal environmental protections. Company Town ultimately asks, what do you do when the company you
work for and live next to is making you sick?
"'Company Town' shocked me.
Watching the movie led me to realize that wretched statistics on cancer mortalities are also linked
to racial
inequalities. Black cancer should matter... It is difficult to establish a causal connection between hazardous wastes and cancer; however, 'Company Town' presents a formidable case...it mounts a passionate protest on behalf of overlooked victims of corporate negligence and greed."
- Susan Gubar, The New York Times
"A vital, eye-opening portrait.
Georgia-Pacific and its owners, Koch Industries, are taken to the
proverbial woodshed in the trenchant, disturbing documentary. Powerful."
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"A
film like this could literally save lives."
- Sundance TV
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