The Story of Plastic

Depicting a world rapidly becoming overrun with toxic material, THE STORY OF PLASTIC brings into focus an alarming, man-made crisis. Striking footage, original animations, and archival material combine in this timely documentary to point to the disastrous impact of the manufacture and use of plastics, shedding new light on a pressing global challenge that threatens the life expectancy of animals, humans, and Earth itself.

  • Deia Schlosberg
    Director
    How to Let Go of the World; Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock; The Reluctant Radical; Cold Love
  • Deia Schlosberg
    Producer
  • Stiv Wilson
    Producer
  • Kyle Cadotte
    Co-Producers
    How to Let Go of the World; Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock
  • Megan Ponder
    Co-Producers
  • Deia Schlosberg
    Cinematographers
  • Melissa Lesh
    Cinematographers
    Person of the Forest
  • Tony Hale
    Editors
    Afghan Cycles, Charged, A Will for the Woods
  • Brian Wilson
    Editors
    A Will for the Woods
  • Deia Schlosberg
    Writer
  • Tony Hale
    Writer
  • Brian Wilson
    Writer
  • Ruben DeLuna
    Animators
    The Story of Stuff
  • Mike McCready
    Composer
    [Pearl Jam]
  • Eric Milano
    Rerecording Mixer
    Apollo 11
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 29 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    500,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Belgium, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, United States
  • Language:
    English, Hindi, Indonesian, Malayalam, Tagalog
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Mill Valley Film Festival

    World Premiere
    Audience Choice Award
  • Napa Valley Film Festival
    Napa, CA
    Audience Choice Award, Special Jury Award for Social Impact
  • DOC NYC
  • Newport Film Festival
  • Hot Springs Film Festival
  • Doctober
Director Biography - Deia Schlosberg

Deia Schlosberg made national news in October, 2016, when she was arrested and charged with 45 years' worth of felonies for filming the #ShutItDown pipeline protest in North Dakota. She's currently directing The Story of Plastic, the Story of Stuff organization's first feature film. Previously, Deia produced Josh Fox's climate change film, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (Sundance/HBO). Deia also co-produced Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock (Tribeca/Netflix), and The Reluctant Radical (2018), Lindsey Grayzel's portrait of one climate activist and his personal struggle with avoiding global catastrophe. Deia also co-directed and produced Cold Love, a look at the 25-plus-year career of explorer Lonnie Dupre's journeys to the world's coldest places and the climate change impacts that he's witnessed first-hand by doing so. Deia earned an MFA in Science & Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University in Bozeman, where she directed and produced Backyard, which looks at the human cost of fracking. The film won two student Emmys (Best Documentary, Bricker Humanitarian Award) and screened at film festivals around the world.

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