Monsters
2013 FESTIVAL
45 min.
Filmmaker: Melissa Thompson.
“I was raised to believe in David and Goliath,” says Chicago resident and cancer survivor Leila Mendez. “That you can slay the giant.” Follow one woman’s journey into activism and her community’s fight against the biggest monster of all, one of the country’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants.
TRAILER
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