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Show Hyptr't.nf tini Entertainment Calendar Arts The Wrwiy Smmmtt (atf umr IMO Park Record. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,2002 Events Calendar C-2 Crossword C-4 TV Listings C-8 Classifieds C-10 Auto Pages C-12 SCENE EDITOR: Patrick Connors 649-9014 ext. 104 artsparkrecord.com re U 1 Ontario Mine to be shown on CNBC This weekend, CNBC will air footage filmed underground in Park City's Ontario Mine. Well-known local miner Rich Martinez was interviewed inter-viewed on camera last summer for the show which will include footage of the process used to make the Olympic medals. The Olympic Show is scheduled to be televised on CNBC Saturday at 4 p.m. Need a Sundance film guide? The Copy Depot on Sidewinder Drive in Park City has printed hard copies of the Sundance film guide. Store manager Ben Rosch says their version of the guide may not be as glossy as what Sundance has produced in years past, but it contains con-tains all the essential Sundance information - movie times, locations and synopses. The guide is available avail-able at Copy Depot and costs $13. For $10 Sundance has a catalog of film synopses available at the Shadow Ridge Hotel and at screening screen-ing venues. A separate guide of film times and locations is circulating for free also at venues. Filmmakers examine the hazards of dioxins by Patrick Connors OF THE RECORD STAFF Judith Helfand doesnt look at her parents' par-ents' suburban, vinyl-sided home in Long Island the way she used to. Ever since a trip to Lake Charles, Louisiana, the site of a vinyl siding production plant, their house and the lives of those in the southern . Louisiana area have become inextricably connected. Helfand, one of the filmmakers who created cre-ated "Blue Vinyl," which will make its world premier at Sundance 2002, learned about the plant while in Louisiana showing "A Healthy Baby Girl" (a documentary film that played at Sundance in 1997). In 1994, during the filming of the documentary, docu-mentary, Helfand's parents sided their home with blue vinyl - why wouldn't they? Thousands of homeowners across America were (and still are) doing the same thing. Vinyl siding is relatively cheap, it's weather resistant and age and mildew dont scar it like they do wood. At first, Helfand was upset that the home, which was painted red before, was changing color - it tampered with the continuity conti-nuity of "A Healthy Baby Girl." Then, she discovered that Mossville, Louisiana, a rural town near the vinyl plant, was picked up and moved, literally, because dioxin byproducts created at the plant, had contaminated con-taminated drinking water and were making people sick. Suddenly, mildew protection didnt seem so important. "My dad's answer to rotten wood is making these people sick," says Helfand. It was that realization - the fact that something ostensibly as banal as siding could have such serious implications that started her and co-filmmaker Daniel Gold on the track to "Blue Vinyl." The documentary is a first-person account of Helfand's vinyl education and her search for alternatives to the plastic-based plastic-based siding. In addition to exploring the hazardous effects of creating and disposing of vinyl, "Blue Vinyl" connects communities communi-ties not usually associated with one another. tellMWM EMM VK: "; ' ? ' ? ',' ;- i - - nrUHMw. mmmmtmmmmnmmmiimmritr-"'W& PHOTO BY CHRIS PILARO Documentary filmmaker Judith Helfand clutches a scrap of vinyl siding used on her parents home in Long Island. In "Blue Vinyl," which makes its world premier at Sundance 2002, Helfand explores the productiondisposal of the material and its alternatives. A large portion of the film documents Helfand and Gold's travels to and from a predominantly African-American town in Louisiana and suburban Long Island. "It's a real juxtaposition of worlds that dont usually get connected," says Helfand. The film isnt her first documentary to probe the effects of dangerous chemicals. "A Healthy Baby Girl" is the story of Helfand's battle with cancer caused by the miscarriage prevention drug DES, a synthetic syn-thetic estrogen-mimicking chemical that her mother took during pregnancy. Although there are still tickets available for Salt Lake City screenings of her most recent film, most of the Park City shows are sold out. Ticket holders to "Blue Vinyl" in Park City probably wont look like typical Sundance moviegoers, though - the majority majori-ty will be representatives from various environmental envi-ronmental groups around the country. Judy Robinson, special projects director for the Environmental Health Fund, will be one of those at the documentary's premier. She was one of several people from the environmental community approached by the filmmakers to screen the movie before Sundance. "The film is a wonderful complement to what organizers have been trying to bring to the public," says Robinson. The Environmental Health Fund is one of several organization that works to educate edu-cate people on the hazards of PVC (polyvinyl chloride, the plastic commonly known as vinyl) among other environmen tal issues. Robinson says the uniqueness of the film is that Helfand isnt a scientist. "She pokes fun at her own naivete," says Robinson "she is very much like the average aver-age consumer." Interestingly, the film, despite its serious subject, contains humorous elements. In fact, the original name for the film was going to be "Toxic Comedy." 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