https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/trailer daily 0.75 2021-01-07 https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/synopsis daily 0.75 2021-07-06 https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-04-18 https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/home daily 1.0 2022-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1606760752738-LC2PFUQ5VEAMDZ5NZDNC/logo2.png Home “Everything a great environmental documentary should be” --Jury Award, Eugene Environmental Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1615769878105-AI97CIOWPF0MTUIIUVQI/laurels4.png Home https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/screenings-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-14 https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/team daily 0.75 2021-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608082431427-81YNWVWVZ1XYWE3UM9DP/AlanAdelson%2BCOLOR.jpg OUR TEAM - Alan Adelson - Director, Producer, Writer Alan Adelson works in both film and print. His film and television credits include: One Survivor Remembers, (HBO,) 1995, European production coordinator, winner of the Best Short Documentary Oscar and three Emmy Awards; as producer, director and writer: Lodz Ghetto, (PBS, Channel Four, 9 other countries) short-listed for Best Feature Length Documentary Oscar, 1989, winner, International Film Critics Prize, 8 international film festivals; Two Villages in Kosovo, 2006, (ARTE, RTE), and In Bed With Ulysses, 2012. The People vs. Agent Orange won the Jury Award in the 2020 Eugene Environmental Film Festival. Adelson made worldwide headlines with his investigative articles in Esquire and the Wall Street Journal revealing the disappearance of enriched plutonium from a nuclear reprocessing plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608081292773-6JK2A6XO4P142IKS432R/KTAVERNA.jpg OUR TEAM - Kate Taverna - Director, Producer, Editor, writer Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1607055864107-87RRI1NXNPTCS07UU9ID/Veronique+Bernard.jpg OUR TEAM - Véronique Bernard - Producer, WRITER Véronique Bernard is an independent non-fiction film and television producer, director and senior executive whose experience includes WNET Culture & Arts Documentaries, Sundance Channel Original Programming, New York Times Television, National Geographic Television, ABC News Productions and SBS Television in Australia where she was Head of Production. Recent credits include doc series E2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious (PBS/Sundance, Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award of Merit 2009,) French feature doc co-production The Man Who Invented Himself: Duane Michals (Special Mention Prize International Festival of Film on Art FIFA 2013,) science series Redesign My Brain (ABC Australia, Science Channel, Discovery International 2012, 2014,) PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century (2016), feature docs Enter The Faun (America Reframed, 2017,) The People vs. Agent Orange (Independent Lens, Arte,) Chasing Childhood and Still Not Equal (2020-21.) She teaches in the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1609635487093-FLFVZUB4AJYIFK4P33BE/Blake%252BLeyh%252BPromo%252B2020%252B%252528photo%252Bcredit%252BRyoko%252BLeyh%252529%252Bcopy.jpg OUR TEAM - BLAKE LEYH - COMPOSER, PERFORMER, ARRANGER Blake Leyh is an Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated composer, music supervisor, music producer, and sound designer who lives in New York City. Born in New York but raised in England until age fifteen, Leyh has worked in film post-production sound and music for thirty-five years. His credits include films by James Cameron, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, John Waters, Jonathan Demme, Julie Taymor, Mira Nair, and Kasi Lemmons. Leyh was the music supervisor and composer for all five seasons of HBO's acclaimed series The Wire, and has supervised the music for all of David Simon's subsequent television shows. Leyh has written film scores for over twenty feature films, contributed memorable sound work to over fifty movies, produced albums by all-women punk bands and “the voice of New Orleans” John Boutté, performed sound design and guitar live on stage on a twenty-city US tour with Thomas Dolby, and created a sound installation for Steven Spielberg’s underwater-themed restaurant DIVE. With Tony Jarvis he leads the band N to The Power who released their debut album AUTOGENESIS in September 2020. He has also released five albums of solo music, plus film scores and soundtrack albums for David Simon’s HBO shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608081510938-2L74YNNKWBFMR1SJZVOH/VanAnhVo-dan%2BTranh%2B1-Jason%2BLew.jpg OUR TEAM - van-anh vanessa vo - COMPOSER, PERFORMER, VOCALIST Vân-Ánh Võ is one of the finest performers of Vietnamese traditional instruments in the world and a rapidly emerging composer. She dedicates her life to creating music by blending the wonderfully unique sounds of Vietnamese instruments with other music genres, and fusing deeply rooted Vietnamese musical traditions with fresh new structures and compositions. Vân-Ánh has also been composer, collaborator and guest soloist with the Kronos Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Southwest Chamber Music, Oakland Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Golden State Symphony, Apollo Chamber Players, Flyaway Productions for aerial dance works, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Jazz artists, Rap artists, and other World Music artists. She co-composed and arranged the Oscar nominated and Sundance Grand Jury prize winner for Best Documentary, Daughter from Danang (2002), the Emmy Award winning film and soundtrack for Bolinao 52 (2008), and the winner of multiple “Best Documentary” and “Audience Favorite” awards, A Village Called Versailles (2009). Her CDs include the 2002 Twelve Months, Four Seasons; She’s Not She with award-winning composer Bảo Đỗ (2009) and Three-Mountain Pass, with the Kronos Quartet as her guest artist (2013). This work received positive reviews and high praise by NPR, BBC “The World,” L.A. Times among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608082197306-J97IUUN5T4ITXAFJ2Q89/SCOTT_SINKLER_hoang-1%25252Bcopy.jpg OUR TEAM - Scott sinkler - Director of photography, vietnam Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608082659679-PAGOLENUET2WNSD06QOY/DYANNA_TAYLOR_crop.jpg OUR TEAM - dyanna taylor - Director of photOGRAPHY - U.S. Taylor is an Emmy Award winner and the recipient of the MUSE Award for “Outstanding Vision and Achievement in Cinematography” from New York Women in Film and Television. She began in the film business in San Francisco, producing and directing documentaries with her first company, Taylor/Franklin Films. Her first TV network assignment was as co-director and cinematographer for ABC, making a documentary on the first American women’s climbing expedition Annapurna I in the Himalayas. In the Southwest she directed and produced the NHK/Turner film Vanished!, on the writer and artist (and Lange friend) Everett Reuss. In 2007, Taylor directed Monastery, a four-part series for The Learning Channel. Taylor was recently featured in the NEH video initiative Picturing America about her grandmother’s photograph Migrant Mother. Currently, she is directing Territories of the Fresh and Wild: The Life of a Roshi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608082371941-SNE9UCYV9ZNAY75HFIVS/046IMG_4029.jpg OUR TEAM - SAM SHINN - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY- OREGON, VERMONT Sam Shinn is an Emmy Award winning director of photography of documentaries and television series. His work has been broadcast nationally and internationally in over fifteen countries for PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, BBC, CBC-Canada and all the major cable outlets. He has filmed Gwyneth Paltrow on a 10,000 mile culinary and cultural tour of Spain, investigated the family roots of Meryl Streep, Stephen Colbert, Yo Yo Ma & Eva Longoria, and explored international cuisine with Chefs Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Thomas Keller. He has been the director of photography of over 10 television series and countless documentaries and feature films. Sam's work has also been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608784531114-UEHA4YO66DHMQX4JSYL5/Luca_Chiari.jpg OUR TEAM - LUCA CHIARI - DIRECTOR OF photOGRAPHY - FRANCE Camera operator/Sound recordist for documentaries, series and live events on demand for International broadcasters including Arte, BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, Canal+, CBBC, Discovery Channel, France2, France3 and France5. He’s been awarded as Director/Writer of documentaries for French and International broadcasters and festival releases. Location Manager/Fixer on several BBC series working with presenters Francesco da Mosto, Andrew Marr, Brian Cox among others and on top end shows like Blue Peter, Who do you think you are?, and Mastermind. He is the founder of Megafilms.net s.a.r.l. in 2001 and associate (2001-2005) of the company through which he produced documentaries and short films selected at 50 festivals worldwide, winning more than 10 awards and through which he distribute a worldwide catalogue of documentaries and animation series. As Line producer/Production manager/Production team member at Alegria with Christine Camdessus and Serge Gordey, he worked from 2004 —Hammer & Tickle which premiered at Tribeca — to 2011 with 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, Oscar nominee and Emmy award winner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608082321637-IL5FWAC1KOA88668T6UI/TOM%252BPAUL.jpg OUR TEAM - TOM PAUL - SOUND DESIGN, RE-RECORDING MIXER Two-time Emmy Award winning Re-Recording Mixer and a highly regarded Sound Designer, Tom Paul is one of New York City's most sought after talents in the field of post production audio. The last few years have been filled with working on wonderful films including The Big Sick, City of Ghosts, Cartel Land, Weiner, The Wolfpack, Particle Fever, The Square, Doris, and Anesthesia, to name just a few. A New York City native, Tom Paul was surrounded by music and sound from the moment he was born. Tom got his professional start as a boom operator in 1988, moving on to production mixing in 1991. Some notable titles of his early years in production sound include: Trust, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Little Odessa, Swoon and The Yards. In 1994, his passion for sound led him to the creative environment of post production. Some highlights of his sound design and re-recordng credits include the Academy Award winning films The Fog of War and Born Into Brothels. Other notable films include: Junebug, Palindromes, The Baxter, The King, and U2 360, the largest selling concert DVD of all time. Tom won his first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Mixing on Joe Berlinger's Under African Skies, and his second one for Best Sound Editing for Cartel Land. https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/characters daily 0.75 2021-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083027177-ZXMDM319LOAK6Q5Z78GV/CarolVanStrum1_KenGagneSM.jpg CHARACTERS - CAROL VAN STRUM Carol Van Strum is a writer, ruthless editor, and seasoned troublemaker. During the 1960s she was co-publisher and editor of Oyez Press and co-owner of Cody's Books in Berkeley, California. Publications include “A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights” (Sierra Club Books, 1983, 2014), "The Oreo File" (Jericho Hill books 2016), “No Margin of Safety” (Greenpeace 1987), and “The Politics of Penta (Greenpeace 1989). She has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, and other publications. The People vs. Agent Orange draws heavily from her experience and book, A Bitter Fog, about the battle to stop U.S. Forest Service aerial spraying of Agent Orange in our forests. She has been a toxics and legal researcher for environmental lawyers since 1975, was sole editor for The Department of the Planet Earth, and until recently copy editor for Mongabay.com, and Tropical Conservation Science Journal. In 2018 she was awarded the international David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding environmental and social justice work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608433427423-NO17N04R6A43CX3ZY4B6/Tran%2BTo%2BNga%2526victims_HoangNguyen.jpg CHARACTERS - TRAN TO NGA Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1609341552337-Z8VS810UBPPTGE7DPD9J/James%252BClary.LS.jpg CHARACTERS - DR. JAMES CLARY Jim Clary has published more than twenty-five scientific papers and books and co-authored over eight hundred articles on outdoor equipment and his adventures in the great outdoors with Mary, his bride of 33 years. Jim has concentrated his life on being outdoors for sixty years. He worked as a commercial fisherman for five seasons and earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in fisheries and wildlife biology from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He served as an officer in the United States military during the Vietnam War and was honorably discharged as a Major in 1975. He is a 100% disabled veteran and a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans. He has taught as a professor on several university faculties including the US Air Force Academy. He says the filmed interview he granted for The People vs. Agent Orange was his first and will be his last. A heart attack in 2018 slowed him down a bit, but at 81 years young he is still working. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083182050-L5OG7D8Q1DG98DCBXVFG/Darryl_Ivy.jpg CHARACTERS - DARRYL IVY Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608086420621-HFWS5D7HKGEVGY3QWXQN/cabinet%2Bbourdon%2Bassocies003.jpg CHARACTERS - WILLIAM BOURDON, BERTRAND REPOLT, AND AMÉLIE LEFEBVRE A world-renowned human rights attorney, William Bourdon is the founding partner of the Paris law firm, Bourdon & Associates. He has been a member of the Paris bar since 1980. Bourdon's practice involves major international civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. He often serves as a consultant with foreign governments, NGOs and institutions.. His partners, Amélie Lefebvre and Bertrand Repolt joined the office in 2013. Lefebvre worked with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Repolt worked previously at the European Union Court of Justice. The team filed Tran To Nga’s lawsuit against 23 American chemical manufacturers of Agent Orange in the High Court in Evry, south of Paris, in 2014. Since then they have been representing their Vietnamese/French client through a persistent and often delayed series of procedural hearings involving several lawyers from each chemical company. The final pleadings in the case are scheduled for January 25, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083249514-FBVKOPA8T0ED552XBJEK/Moore_readingMS%252Bcopy.jpg CHARACTERS - JONATHAN MOORE Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083285750-777ENLELQNSFBDYPFKPP/Bouny.jpg CHARACTERS - André Bouny Author of the seminal resource, Agent Orange: Apocalypse Vietnam, André Bouny has been a noted authority on the history and legacy of the herbicidal war in Vietnam for several decades. He is an outspoken advocate for the care of Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, and for holding the manufacturers of the herbicides accountable. Bouny and his close colleague, the renowned French human rights lawyer William Bourdon, who wrote the introduction to his book, had sought to find a plaintiff for a case they hoped to file against the American chemical corporations for several years. They met Tran To Nga in 2009 and immediately recruited her for their lawsuit. Steeped in the scientific, medical, ethical and legal complexities of Agent Orange, Bouny has advised the Bourdon legal team through six years of protracted pre-trial hearings, procedural disputes and factual submissions before two magistrates. Mr. Bouny has travelled extensively in Vietnam. He lives in the south of France with his wife and two adopted Vietnamese children. He continues to follow developments related to Agent Orange closely, maintaining the highly informative website: https://www.agent-orange-vietnam.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083316176-4GTGIOY4LH2ZXY8GOWKM/Bruce%252BAnderson.jpg CHARACTERS - BRUCE ANDERSON Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083345706-E84YR3ACCNSODGHCG000/Zierler1.jpg CHARACTERS - DAVID ZIERLER David Zierler directs the Oral History program at the American Institute of Physics in College Park, MD. Previously he worked in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. David is the author the often cited book, The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083402913-XMBWASE6VY7KA9F419XO/Peter%2BSills.jpg CHARACTERS - PETER SILLS Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608161002351-CU01XXRS6K0H73T0TNDC/Renee%252BStringham2.jpg CHARACTERS - RENEE STRINGHAM Drs. Renee and Charles Stringham shared a practice in family medicine in Lincoln City, Oregon from 1975 until 1989. When they opened the practice they had no idea that Lincoln County would eventually be considered one of four primary hot spots in the nation for birth defects. Renee treated people who were directly sprayed by helicopters and followed those patients and their families for many years, writing a paper about her observations of patients who had been sprayed, considering the occurrences of birth defects, chemical sensitivities, bleeding, and other symptoms. Stringham soon became an activist, making great efforts to call public attention to timber industry practices she believed were endangering the health of those around her. She put forward a voters' initiative in Lincoln County to ban herbicide spraying within 100 yards of any running stream, school, playground or bus stops in Oregon. After her children were threatened by two men from the chemical and timber industry in the scene she describes in The People vs. Agent Orange, she gathered her research documents and donated them to the Northwest Center For Alternatives to Pesticides in Eugene. She then withdrew from public speaking and activism against herbicides. Today, she’s active once again in the peace and Black Lives Matter movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608256141933-GZ2ACRM71XK5MHVYIJZJ/Susan%252BSwift.jpg CHARACTERS - SUSAN SWIFT Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083497979-9X8ZJ5RKE8KL9ENBZ6PL/heather%252Bbowser.jpg CHARACTERS - HEATHER BOWSER Heather Bowser is an Agent Orange activist and co-founder of Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance (COVVHA) an organization that brings together the children of Vietnam Veterans who have been born, and live with, the debilitating birth defects that Agent Orange/Dioxin are presumed to cause. Collectively they feel abandoned by the U.S. government. Heather's father served in Vietnam from 1968-1969. He died at the age of 50 from illnesses attributed to his exposure to Agent Orange. Heather has travelled to Vietnam four times since 2011, grounding her understanding of the lingering effects of Agent Orange on the people and the environment there. She says one of her missions is to bridge understanding between the Vietnamese and American victims of Agent Orange. She is a practicing Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Poland, Ohio, diagnosing and treating mental health disorders with a concentration on trauma issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1608083532211-HXOFFNY0KO6K797Z33JE/Weinstein.jpg CHARACTERS - Judge JACK WEINSTEIN Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1609372255984-Y1J8PJLOK8XP1EFLHFPA/Tom%252BDaschle.jpg CHARACTERS - THOMAS A. DASCHLE The eldest of four brothers from a working family in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Tom Daschle became the first person in his family to graduate from college when he earned a political science degree from South Dakota State University in 1969. After serving 3 years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, including duty in Vietnam, he spent 5 years as a Senate aide. In 1978, Daschle was elected and served four terms in the House of Representatives. In 1986 he ran for the U.S. Senate and won election in a very close race. A tireless fighter for working families in South Dakota and in national politics, Daschle steadily advanced in the Democratic party's leadership. He worked on getting health care protections for seniors and for Native Americans, many living in his home state. He concentrated on the economic development of farming. With little apparent political benefits to gain, Daschle fought a “ten year battle” within Congress to secure health care benefits for Vietnam veterans. He is recognized in the Congressional Record as the author of the Agent Orange Act of 1991. He also worked intensely to address the increasing incidence of birth defects in children of veterans exposed to the defoliants. As Senate majority leader, he steered the Senate, and helped steer the nation, through the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. His office was mailed anthrax which was detected in security processing. Throughout his post-Senate career, Daschle has been a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. He now runs The Daschle Group, a lobbying firm with his son, Nathan Daschle. https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/credits daily 0.75 2021-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1610211048732-IK4JZW542G4QMVC78OE7/AO_END_CREDIT_01_LOGOS_v2.jpg CREDITS https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/photos daily 0.75 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1626120373428-UJBUFNJWEUFM1BDF6JJC/agentorange_keyart_+July+copy.jpg PHOTOS The People Vs. Agent Orange POSTER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1607124168340-5HGBXVDMX1AILZ9FFE0N/POV+spraying+VN.jpg PHOTOS The herbicide, Agent Orange is sprayed from a military helicopter over vast expanses of South Vietnam. Between 1962 and 1971, the U. S. sprayed 12 million gallons of dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange and 8 million gallons of other herbicides on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — an average of 5,200 gallons a day for 3,735 days. [Archival film still_National Archives and Records Administration] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1606755156863-P08EWYVEFILBPV95ZT7I/C-123sSprayVietnam_1960s.jpg PHOTOS - C-123 “Provider” aircraft spray Agent Orange, a 50/50 mixture of the herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, over Vietnam during Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971. [Film still: The National Archives and Records Administration]. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1610210088465-ZKPIN9NKRM1PICUIUUKD/CarolVanStrum_KenGagne.jpg PHOTOS - Carol Van Strum with her rescued animals, Oregon. Photo: Ken Gagne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1607097305398-PRZH27KZL5WP25UP3L16/RFScottImagery-IMG_0717.jpg PHOTOS Carol Van Strum, Kathy Drummond and Peter Von Stackelberg scan the tens of thousands of chemical company documents collected by Van Strum over decades. They are now available to the public via “The Poison Papers” and “Toxic Docs” websites. (Photo: Risa F. Scott) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1607120252534-DLZIR92DJV3BW52H53T2/Nga%26AOvictims.jpg PHOTOS Tran To Nga divides her time between a suburb of Paris and Vietnam. Here she visits several of the fourth generation of victims of Agent Orange who perform and sell handicrafts at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (Film still: Scott Sinkler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1609988385040-K6HWLPIGBYQO66H0MS2G/TranToNgaWithReporters_Evry_France.jpg PHOTOS Tran To Nga addresses the press outside the Tribunal de Grande Instance courthouse in Evry, France. In her lawsuit, now entering its seventh year, Madame Tran is the sole complainant against an original list of 26 American chemical manufacturers. (Film still: Milena Donato) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1606928362482-174D3KFOFZBLDVGW3LFX/contaminatedStream.jpg PHOTOS A rivulet carries run-off from a clear cut Oregon hillside that has been sprayed with herbicides. The run-off in turn feeds a stream that is then collected in a reservoir. The people of coastal Oregon drink surface water. (Film still: Shane Anderson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1609987903516-CXYC2XTFI17VUQ3HWKFA/James%2BClary.LS.jpg PHOTOS - Dr. James Clary acknowledges in the first and only filmed interview he has ever given that as an officer and scientist in Vietnam “we knew” that Agent Orange was toxic. But no one involved in Operation Ranch Hand seems to have foreseen the extent to which the herbicide would wreak havoc on the human genome, nor that it would kill tens of thousands of Vietnamese and Americans. (Film still: Dyanna Taylor) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1610052126569-OM3JOYXBT9ORKXB9YD9M/AOMANIFESTATION_MS2A.jpg PHOTOS - Tran To Nga and her lawyers lead a manifestation in support of Agent Orange victims in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (Film still: Scott Sinkler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1615603357977-DFOUD0BQM96DTSDOHOP3/agentorange_keyart_background-cropped-1920x1080.jpg PHOTOS - The People vs. Agent Orange horizontal format https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/resources daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1624387071999-TV3ZAAKKEZF6S3IPL3LH/Bitter+Fog+Cover+v7.jpg RESOURCES - A BITTER FOG: HERBICIDES AND HUMAN RIGHTS Van Strum’s book is the story of a struggle that spawned a still vibrant environmental movement, and is sure to inspire a whole new generation of future activists. Now In Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle formats. AVAILABLE AT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1624388588532-WEUNIL42LLRHYZ9IT6DP/The+invention+of+ecocide+copy.jpg RESOURCES - The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment BY DAVID ZIERLER Driven by the idea that humans were altering the world’s ecology for the worse, a group of scientists relentlessly challenged Pentagon assurances of safety, citing possible long-term environmental and health effects. It wasn’t until 1970 that the scientists gained access to sprayed zones confirming that a major ecological disaster had occurred. Their findings convinced the U.S. government to renounce first use of herbicides in future wars and, Zierler argues, fundamentally reoriented thinking about warfare and environmental security in the next forty years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1624388954264-92EY8KH7SCCZCE2W9W5L/TOXIC+WAR.jpg RESOURCES - Toxic War: The Story of Agent Orange BY PETER SILLS Toxic War takes the reader behind the scenes into the halls of political power and industry, where the debates about the use of Agent Orange and its potential side effects raged. In the end, the only way America’s Vietnam veterans could seek justice was in the court of law and public opinion. Unprecedented in its access to legal, medical, and government documentation, as well as to the personal testimonies of veterans, Toxic War endeavors to explore all sides of this epic battle. https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/press daily 0.75 2021-08-14 https://www.thepeoplevsagentorange.com/panel-discussions daily 0.75 2021-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/9f0042a8-b714-4398-aebb-3abde8d683bb/deadline+copy.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - “They’re Both Extraordinary Women”: Heroic Campaigners Against Toxic Herbicide Headline ‘The People Vs. Agent Orange’ – For The Love Of Docs “ Q and A with moderator Matthew Carey of DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD : FOR THE LOVE OF DOCS series festival. November 10, 2021. See it here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1613612390730-IML0HSMSP20W33N7MBD1/TPvAO_w_Activist_Organizations.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - In conjunction with The Darkside Cinema run in Corvallis, Oregon, in January 2021, the filmmakers discuss activism with Carol Van Strum, author and activist from the film, and organization leaders: Leah Bolger, president of World Beyond War, Susan Hammond, founder and Executive Director of War Legacies Project, Debra Fant, organizer from Lincoln County Community Rights, Alison Clement, author from Corvallis and moderator Andrew Collins-Anderson of The Coast Range Association. https://vimeo.com/501315999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1613614800420-P1MPMFIO83FD1XGZPJNO/GlobalHealthFFPanel.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - On December 2, 2020, after the opening night at the Global Health Film Festival in the U.K., the filmmakers spoke with Carol Van Strum, author and activist and character in the film, along with Michael K. Skinner, Professor, Environmental Epigenetics, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University. His research shows how exposure to toxins leads to increased susceptibility to disease in future generations. Moderated by Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor at The Financial Times. https://vimeo.com/513654124 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1625589029431-1YBHZTWGJC8EWLCOBWAK/Screen+Shot+2021-07-06+at+12.29.36+PM+%282%29.png PANEL DISCUSSIONS - The History Film Forum is an online series from the Smithsonian that explores history on the screen and the evolution of film as public history. Frank Blazich, Curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is joined by the film directors Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna and activist Carol Van Strum for a conversation focusing on how the film was made and the story it tells. Presented by Smithsonian Associate and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History through the generous support of Dan Manatt and Democracy Films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8zqhpZb7k https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1617204320785-WETNB7HAPQYSE7VYS8PQ/maysles.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - Filmmakers Kate Taverna and Alan Adelson in conversation with producer Veronique Bernard about their 2021 film THE PEOPLE VS. AGENT ORANGE which follows two heroic women leading a worldwide movement to end the use of Agent Orange and hold the manufacturers accountable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhojAFznxLM&ab_channel=MayslesDocumentaryCenter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1616200501242-BEA2YDZZQFHBQFUIM8ML/oregon+panel+discussion.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - Community Rights activists from several Oregon counties share their experiences living with the aerial spraying of herbicides. Dr. Renee Stringham reports on caring for patients exposed to toxic sprays, of delivering babies born with significant birth defects including deformed brains, and of a threat to her children. Community rights activists discuss their efforts to change local and state, detailing their campaign to protect the Rights of Nature, and their successful campaign to pass the country's first aerial spray ban in in 2017. The ban was over-turned through preemptive claims based on state statutes. The case is now pending on appeal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUfZrfpUalU&t=2725s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1617047314767-3Q0WG89KMCGI5S5WO5PU/enduring+impacts+of+AO.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - Enduring Impacts of Agent Orange Heather Bowser, president and founder of the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance, Josh Kelley, son of a Marine Vietnam veteran, Carolann Caroll, a widow of an Agent Orange-impacted Vietnam veteran, and Dat Duthinh, war refugee and peace activist. Moderated by Tony Talbott, director of advocacy at the Human Rights Center. https://udayton.edu/artssciences/ctr/hrc/meagher-fellowship/vietnam-legacies-project.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1617385602355-CHKK5X5P915DZ46FAY5Z/webinar+cut.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - Webinar: Agent Orange: Lasting Legacy of the Vietnam War In this powerful panel on March 25, 2021, Hoan Thi Tran and Heather Bowser share their personal stories. Jonathan Moore discusses the U.S. legal cases around Agent Orange, and Tricia Euvrard talks about the current lawsuit in France. Susan Schnall talks about the broad health effects of Agent Orange, and Paul Cox briefly discusses the legislation on Agent Orange that U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee will soon introduce. This webinar was inspired by the documentary The People Vs Agent Orange. https://worldbeyondwar.org/webinars/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1618511747569-A57CCSQQPAVH76HRS1ZW/UCLA+panel.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - Redefining Ecocide: Addressing Mass Damage and Destruction During the Vietnam War, Arthur Galston at Yale University coined the term Ecocide to describe the environmental destruction of the war, including the use of over 20 million gallons of herbicides against forests and croplands in southern Vietnam, southeastern Laos and parts of Cambodia. Today, there is a new effort to make individuals responsible for the destruction of the environment liable at the International Criminal Court for the crime of Ecocide. In collaboration with the new documentary film, The People VS Agent Orange currently streaming at the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at the UCLA Law School invites you to a discussion on Redefining Ecocide - answering renewed calls to protect the environment and the life which depends on it. https://youtu.be/huxgGXSuIzo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1618791220771-0MLAGASRR5Q65972KE50/OCRN+copy.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM BEING POISONED Live Q&A with Filmmakers and Activists. Filmmakers: Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna Oregon resident featured in the film: Dr. Renee Stringham Members of Community Rights Chapters in Lane and Lincoln county: Debra Fant and David Tvedt. https://orcrn.org/the-people-vs-agent-orange-virtual-screening-premier/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc19f0bb8467722f1d95c06/1622952614483-SEZTSBPDM7W77IAR3M1P/mtmroundtable.jpg PANEL DISCUSSIONS - A roundtable discussion at the Movies that Matter 2021 festival codifying ecocide by the International Criminal Court at the Hague. The film “The People vs. Agent Orange” inspired the conversation. https://vimeo.com/559535154