Vs. Goliath: Cancer Alley

Vs. Goliath: Cancer Alley

Release Date

2024

Director

  • Sam Eilertsen
  • Nate Birnbaum

A grandmother fights the industries poisoning her community.

Until she learned about a proposed plastics plant a few miles from her home, Sharon Lavigne was a special education teacher whose favorite pastime was singing in her church choir. Vs Goliath: Cancer Alley follows Sharon, a grandmother of twelve, in her fight against the industries poisoning her community. She lives in the region known as “Cancer Alley,” a corridor along the Mississippi River that was once the heart of plantation country, and is now petrochemical plant country, still populated largely by the descendents of the enslaved. Receiving a message from God that she must stay and fight the plants, Sharon becomes an internationally renowned activist as she mobilizes her family and wider community.

Past Programs

2024

An environmental dialogue

New Orleans Film Society, New Orleans, LA