Primafilm, an independent, creative and technological district, presents a grand new challenge: a journey into the world of incinerators, of subtle particles, nano-particles and of possible alternatives to the incineration of waste, such as separated door-to-door waste, recycling, the re-use of waste materials and renewable energy sources.
The film – with its heavily evocative title, Filthy to the Core – takes its inspiration from several questions: is it true incinerators are harmful? Why do they continue to construct these incineration plants in Italy, while the rest of the world is dismantling them? What are the exact health risks? What are the damages caused by micro and nano-particles emitted from the incinerators? What are the possible alternatives?
With these demands in mind Carlo Martigli, writer and journalist who has always been engaged in burning investigations, begins his research. The film documents his internet researches which suddenly become all too real: interviews, film clips, exclusive coverage around the world from Italy to the U.S, France, England and Austria.
Sporchi da morire (Filthy to the Core) is a documentary which will force us to reflect on a problem which not only affects us, but also our children.
“Filthy to the core” is a very ambitious Italian project, with extensive international scope. The most important national and international experts are keen supporters of the project: Professor Paul Connett, brains behind the strategy. “Zero Waste”; Dr. Stefano Montanari and Dr. Antonietta Gatti, experts and discoverers of nano-particles; Dr. Patrizia Gentilini, oncologist and member of the Association Medics for the Environment; biologist Prof. Gianni Tamino, Dr. Valerio Gennaro, oncologist epidemiologist ISDE Italia; Dr. Federico Valerio, Head of Environmental Chemistry IST of Genova, the mayors of the virtuous cities of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto and Berkeley; mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom and his Staff; representatives of the French IVS, Dr. Calut and Dr. Laffont, who are the signatories of the most important global research on the topic of hazardous waste incineration; Dr. Dick van Steenis, who has mapped out effects of pollution on English children and blocked 16 applications for incinerator-constructions; Dr. Luft of the Rescue Workers Detoxification Project and the 911 Police Aid Foundation that deals with people sick from the inhalation of nano-particles after the collapse of the Twin Towers (around 170,000 cases have already been confirmed); representatives of national and international committees, Father Alex Zanotelli, Maruzio Pallante of the Happy Degrowth Movement, Greenpeace Italy and many others.
Thousands of people have joined the project so as to certify the film as that with the longest film credits in the world. These film credits start with a special, non-invasive graphic meter from the first few minutes of the film.
Sporchi da morire is not a pure documentary as such, but rather a documentary which bears the classics of cinematic storytelling. In short, it is not an informative film for intellectuals and specialists only, but a film with a language that will appeal to a wide and varied audience. Beginning with the theme of incinerators, the film's focus moves gradually onto nano-particles, highlighted by experts as invisible forms of pollution in both the present and near future.
