PREMISE
Log Line
Millions of clotheslines are banned in the U.S. Electricity is sold as a status symbol. Now corporate America has its eyes on a much bigger prize... the world.
Premise
DRYING FOR FREEDOM will reveal the story of our love affair with energy; the people who are campaigning against it, the rules of society that have created to sustain it and the destruction it is causing to the planet. It will explore how outdoor clothes drying has been banned in countless communities across the U.S. and how these communities are fighting for their right to dry naturally. DRYING FOR FREEDOM will also show how corporate America sold its citizens the dream of electric bliss in the 1950s. It will investigate the argument that globalisation continues to promote the use of electric driers over clotheslines signifying that our future is hanging on the line.
Treatment
DRYING FOR FREEDOM aims to be a global exploration of the environment, freedom, communities and corporate exploitation of the environment. The documentry will include key contributers from the U.S. and as far as India, revealing the enormity of the problem. Within the U.S. the documentry includes contributers from Verona, Mississippi, where investigations are underway in a unique clothesline murder case, to the home of Alexander Lee, leader of the world's leading clothesline pressure group in Concord, New Hampshire. The film will explore our electrical heritage and events leading up to millions of clothesline bans within U.S. communities where the restrictions of freedom has become an un-environmental way of life. 6% of the average U.S. household energy bill currently goes on electric clothes drying, which translates into $5 billion a year being spent in the U.S. alone. Drying clothes therefore has become the new environmental battleground.
Contact
WL:DOCS +44(0)844 842 5450 adam.merrifeild@wldocs.com