Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds is a 2022 Canadian documentary film, directed by Jennifer Baichwal."Hot Docs ’22: Jennifer Baichwal talks Hot Docs opening film “Into the Weeds”". RealScreen, April 28, 2022. The film centres on Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, the California man whose terminal cancer is claimed to be due to exposure to the herbicide product Roundup led to the landmark Johnson v. Monsanto Co. court case.Jennie Punter, "‘Into the Weeds’ Director on Revealing the Effects of Weed-Killer on Human Health and the Environment". Variety, April 29, 2022.

The film premiered as the opening film of the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,Sadaf Ahsan, "Baichwal’s ‘Into the Weeds’ to open Hot Docs festival heavy on social justice". Toronto Star, March 30, 2022. in advance of a planned television broadcast by CBC Television in fall 2022 as an episode of The Passionate Eye.

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