On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, award-winning Los Angeles Time reporter Rosanna Xia discusses her new documentary 'Out of Plain Sight,' a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California.
'Out of Plain Sight' is a cinematic expansion of a series of haunting reports by Xia, who broke the story exposing how as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste — including DDT — had been quietly dumped into the ocean decades ago, just off the coast of Los Angeles.
Although DDT was banned 50 years ago, its toxic — and insidious — legacy continues to haunt the marine ecosystem off the California coast.
“I have spent years unraveling a toxic mystery that the ocean had buried for generations, and this story was begging to be told more visually – with a more profound exploration of how the horrors of our past continue to affect us and our future,” Xia told The Times.
There will be a special screening of Out of Plain Sight tomorrow, Saturday, November 1, from 1–3 p.m. at The Roxie Theater. The event is presented by The Redford Center, which will also moderate a post-screening Q&A.
Guest:
Rosanna Xia, environmental reporter covering the California coastline for the Los Angeles Times, author of California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline, and co-director of 'Out of Plain Sight'
Resources:
The Los Angeles Times: L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground
The Los Angeles Times: Here’s what we know about the legacy of DDT dumping off L.A.’s coast
