Land of Destiny (2010)


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Land of Destiny - is about a hard-working petrochemical town that is rocked by revelations that its workers suffer an epidemic of cancers. But even more terrifying is the looming promise of deindustrialization and joblessness. - Dying may be inevitable but having good work is not..."

About the Film

A PORTRAIT OF WORK, LANDSCAPE AND COMMUNITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

In the rich fabric of Sarnia Ontario's landscape - the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants, swollen hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century.

Tattooed men serving fries, basement musicians, boilermakers and volunteer firemen, heartbroken widows and an optimistic mayor - the lives of a diverse medley of characters intersect to reveal the dramas and contradictions of an industrial town out of sync with a post-industrial world. As the dystopian architecture of the petrochemical plants, squatted like crushed space stations just meters away from homes and schoolyards, give way to the spaces that make this city a community, we begin to see what it is that everyone seems so afraid to lose.

LAND OF DESTINY is a tender portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a devastating investigation into when and for what people fight for.

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