Episode 433 - Leif Kaldor - Something in the Air

Leif Kaldor and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the new film Something in The Air, Pollution as a global and invisible crisis, behavioral change, nano particles, hot spots and mental health and why air is the great equalizer.

Trailer

Synopsis

Matthew is a bright, active 10-year-old boy. He loves playing outside and just tried out for hockey. But he also has asthma, and had to leave the city and move to the country - because he couldn’t breathe. He doesn’t live in Delhi or Beijing, his family had to move from Toronto.

Pollution is killing tens of thousands of people every day around the world. Cities across Asia and Europe have had to shut down and stop traffic to manage “Airpocalypse” pollution events when the air is unsafe for the people who live there. New research is showing the answer may be - worse than we knew. Pollution causes a range of respiratory diseases, and even short exposure can change how our DNA functions. New science is finding that microscopic bits of air pollution may be able to travel from your nose directly into your brain, and could be causing dementia in humans.

For more info about the film head here.

Biography:

Leif Kaldor, director/co-writer of Something in the Air, is a writer, director and producer of award-winning television and cross-platform projects. Eschewing professional motocross for business, Leif has been running small and medium-sized businesses since 1980 in emerging technology (satellite receiving systems), music (independent Label and touring), interactive media, and film and television. Leif has directed drama, written and directed documentaries, written for radio, produced music CDs and videos, and been the creative force behind a range of interactive projects. In addition to his television awards, Leif is a Juno Award-winning music producer and a Gemini Award-winning multimedia producer. He directs lifestyle, documentary and dramatic programs.

Leif directed and co-wrote the one-hour CBC Doc Zone episode Remote Control War, which has won numerous awards including a 2011 Rockie Award; MS Wars for CBC The Nature of Things in 2012. He directed and co-wrote three seasons of the travelling food series The Prairie Diner and has directed documentaries on subjects as diverse as

Shaolin Kung-Fu, fracking for shale gas, drones, and preachers who lose their faith.

Zoot Pictures documentaries are distributed worldwide. Their latest project, Something in the Air, about air pollution, airs in February 2019 on CBC The Nature of Things, and is distributed worldwide by PBS International.

Leif co-produced and co-directed the science fiction web series Nikola Tesla and the

End of the World Season 2, also for release in 2019. Leif has also been the creative force behind a range of interactive projects. He has originated the concepts, directed and produced seven award-winning CD-ROM projects, designed a 3D language learning game, developed a 3D snowmobile safety game, and created convergent web projects. Leif directed and co-developed Edible Shorts, a convergent half-hour series on short film. Leif was the producer of the Gemini Award-winning website cornergas.com and was the producer and creative director of interactive for the world’s first online comedy contest, Corner Gas Comic Genius, which took a web contest to a television special and back to the web.

Image Copyright: Leif Caldor and and Zoot Pictures. Used with permission.

Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.

For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.

With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound.

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