Green Warriors
Paraguay’s Poisoned Fields
The Rory Peck Awards 2019 Sony Impact Award for Current Affairs

A film by Martin Boudot
First broadcast June 5th, 2019 on France 5

Green Warriors, a series of scientific investigative documentaries.

Paraguay tells the story of our world.
To feed livestock around the planet, the soybean industry destroys the country’s forests, to plant its fields whom pesticides sprayings poison the inhabitants.
On site, journalists and scientists work together to find evidences of the contamination. They are developing a unique scientific study on the genetic damage of children exposed to pesticides. Their results will make the headlines and trigger a national debate to the Senate.

The team of “Green Warriors » also traces back to the source of pollution: to pesticides companies like Monsanto.