Saurav Vishnu’s award-winning documentary short “Tailing Pond” is being expanded into a six-part documentary series with the involvement of “Sex and the City” actor Cynthia Nixon.Nixon narrated the documentary short, which investigates the horrifying effects of uranium extraction on the health of the indigenous population of Jadugora, Jharkhand in East India, where thousands of children are falling ill and dying from radioactive waste pollution.
The film was shot in Jadugora over five years and explores the impact on health and human rights and how the villagers are living amid the situation.The documentary series will follow 12 new families in Jadugora who are suffering due to radioactive poisoning.“I think it’s a wonderful idea, and I would, of course, want to be involved,” Nixon told Variety.
“Anything that I can do to bring attention and to get the word out, I would want to be there for.”Tailing
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