Director Michael Graversen finds out that the Danish town Grindsted, where he grew up, is also the home of one of the biggest pollution scandals in Denmark. One day he hears the startling forecasts about the future of the groundwater on the radio and realizes that he was born and bred in a chemical dump.
No one seems to be willing to take responsibility for the disaster.
In TOXIC GROUND, Michael Graversen goes on a quest to make the politicians and the local community step up and take responsibility for cleaning the water and restoring the groundwater so future generations will have clean drinkring water.
Original title (Danish): Jorden er giftig
Director: Michael Graversen
Producers: Lise Saxtrup and Stine Hamburger
Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Cinematographer: Anders Aagaard Nielsen and Kenneth Sorento
TOXIC GROUND is produced with support from the Film Workshop of the Danish Film Institute.
The intimate portrait of an young Afghan refugee in “Dreaming of Denmark” (2015) earned him a CPH:DOX F:ACT Award nomination and “No Man’s Land” (2013), a strong depiction of life at a children’s asylum center was selected for IDFA and 25+ festivals.
Previous films include the shorts “An Anxious Mind”, “Toxic Ground” and “The Last Night Shift”.
Michael Graversen graduated in Documentary Directing from the National Film and TV School in the UK and holds a BA in Film & Media Science and Psychology from Copenhagen University.
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