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Life of a Pellet: Plastic Pollution Short Film & Mixer
October 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us for the premiere of Life of a Pellet, a stop motion short film exploring pre-production plastic pellet pollution. Made entirely of plastic trash and real plastic pellets, Life of a Pellet tells the tale of Peter the Pellet who is excited to become a useful plastic item in the world but gets lost outside a production factory. Peter is washed into a storm drain, floats down the Humber River and ends up in Lake Ontario.
Learn from community leaders and speakers as they share more about local research and provide a behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating stop-motion animation for the film.
Life of a Pellet was conceptualized by Zoë Ungku Fa’iz. Building upon her own research on microplastics in landfill leachate, she was inspired to extend the lives of a portion of the millions of the pre-production plastic pellets that were lost to the environment and collected from “Operation Sweep the Creek 3.0”’s project.
The film is supported by Ocean Wise’s Eco-Action Accelerator Grant. Pellets were sourced from U of T Trash Team’s Operation Sweep the Creek 3.0 pollution prevention project. Storyboard and story development by Dani Doodles. Animation by Stop Motion Department.