Meet the Voices
The people who
refused silence
Activists, residents, historians, and scientists — the voices that carry Anniston's story from memory into the record.
Activist · Community Against Pollution
David Baker
An Anniston native who founded Community Against Pollution and became one of the loudest voices demanding accountability for the contamination that reshaped his hometown.
Environmental Advocate
Justinn Overton
An environmentalist working to protect Alabama's waterways and confront the region's ongoing chemical threats, connecting Anniston's past to the fights still ahead.
Historian & Author
Ellen Griffith-Spears
A historian whose research documents how Anniston's environmental and racial histories became inseparable — and what the town's story reveals about industrial America.
Public-Health Physician · PCB Expert
David Carpenter
A physician and researcher who explains the science of PCB exposure in plain terms — how these chemicals move through the body and why their effects last for decades.
Anniston Resident
Cheryl Rein
An Anniston resident whose lived experience anchors the film's account of a community's endurance in the face of a disaster it never saw coming.
Eastman Chemical
Gayle Harris
Representing Eastman Chemical, offering an industry perspective within the film's examination of chemical production and responsibility.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pam Scully
From the U.S. EPA, speaking to the regulation, oversight, and cleanup of contamination like Anniston's.
Interview videos will appear here as they are cleared for release. Portraits are shown as monograms until final stills are approved.