Area 23a and FilmBuff present

The Human Experiment to Hit Theatres & VOD Platforms on April 17, Leading up to Earth Day

Directed by Emmy®-winning journalists Don Hardy and Dana Nachman, Narrated and Executive Produced by Academy Award®-winner Sean Penn

With thousands of untested chemicals in our everyday products, have we all become unwitting guinea pigs in one giant human experiment? The powerful and inspiring new documentary The Human Experiment goes behind the scenes in the fight to protect us from these toxic products before they cause irrevocable harm to our health.

The Human Experiment is directed and produced by Emmy Award®-winning journalists and filmmakers Dana Nachman and Don Hardy (Witch Hunt, Love Hate Love and the Slamdance doc Batkid Begins). Their prior films premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival and were broadcast on MSNBC and The Oprah Winfrey Network. The filmmakers have teamed up with Area23a, an event based theatrical distribution company for a unique hybrid theatrical release through a combination of special event screenings and traditional theatrical run to coincide with Earth Day. New York-based distribution company FilmBuff will simultaneously release the film on all major VOD platforms nationwide including Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, iTunes, Sony PlayStation, Vudu and Xbox Video.

Academy Award®-winning actor and filmmaker Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River) is executive producer and narrator of the film, as he was on Nachman and Hardy’s prior award-winning documentary, Witch Hunt. This marks the third collaboration for Nachman, Hardy and Penn. Penn has devoted much of his career to urgent international causes and in January of 2010, shortly after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the nation of Haiti, Penn established the J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO).

Synopsis:
What if the greatest chemical disaster of our time didn’t involve oil spills or nuclear meltdowns? Instead, it was much lower levels of exposure, inflicted over several generations and affecting every person on the planet. The result: Rising rates of everything from cancer to infertility. This is the shocking reality explored in The Human Experiment, a gripping look at the personal costs associated with the chemicals in our most common household products.

The film follows a band of unlikely activists who are fighting back. Ranging from Howard, a conservative businessman, to Maria, a Latina house cleaner, they are staking their lives on this battle to protect our health. And their opposition is goliath. The powerful and well-funded chemical industry is heavily invested in maintaining the status quo, pulling unseen strings to create an aura of skepticism and confusion.

It’s an emotionally and politically charged showdown and the stakes couldn’t be higher – for these activists on the front lines and for every one of us.

For more on the film please visit their website