Breathtaking.

摘要

Breathtaking is a documentary film that combines personal biography, environmental and workplace issues, and socio-political dialogue. Interweaving public debates with personal memories, Breathtaking is an intimate film that focuses on my fathers' exposure to asbestos, and his subsequent death decades later from Mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos, a natural occurring resource still mined and used today.The film travels from my family's home in Gibsons, BC, where I interview my mother and my sister Anne-Mary, to the town of Thetford, Quebec where asbestos is still being mined for export. The film goes to India, where Canadian asbestos is used for low-cost housing, and to Detroit for an Asbestos Awareness Conference. Breathtaking is a deeply personal and political journey through the landscape of asbestos mining today, and a query into how and why we repeat the mistakes of the past in the present-day.