{"id":18086,"date":"2013-10-31T17:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=310013"},"modified":"2013-10-31T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:44:49","slug":"sean-penns-the-human-experiment-reveals-the-toll-of-toxic-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/sean-penns-the-human-experiment-reveals-the-toll-of-toxic-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn\u2019s \u2018The Human Experiment\u2019 Reveals the Toll of Toxic Chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/toxicmovie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"toxicmovie\"><\/p>\n<p>Actor Sean Penn is the force behind a new major documentary called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehumanexperimentmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Human Experiment<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>that aims to raise awareness about <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/10\/10\/how-daily-exposure-to-toxic-chemicals-can-trigger-serious-health-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\">toxic chemicals<\/a> that are in everyday products.<\/p>\n<p>Narrated by Penn, the film&nbsp;tells the personal stories of people who believe their lives have been affected&nbsp;by chemicals and takes viewers to the front lines as activists go head-to-head with the powerful and well-funded chemical industry, the filmmakers said.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the nonprofit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teensturninggreen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teens Turning Green<\/a> appear in the trailer, with an impassioned voiceover of a youth saying,&nbsp;&#8220;If you&#8217;re not outraged, you&#8217;re not paying attention to what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy Jr., the film&nbsp;marks the third collaboration for&nbsp;Nachman, Hardy and Penn.&nbsp;The trio collaborated on the documentary&nbsp;<em>Witch Hunt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is screening at festivals this fall, with wider release likely next year.&nbsp;Its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California sold out earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oi.vresp.com\/?fid=00b11039e0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner121\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/topnewsbanner1211.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[12201,3061,12202,7240],"class_list":["post-18086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-featured-living","tag-health","tag-living","tag-toxic-chemicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}