Her dad died. Then she uncovered a global cover-up nobody wants you to know about.
The unexpected death of the director’s father is the starting point and the spur for an intense journey through hidden family stories, an in-depth investigation into the asbestos lobby, and a legal battle. A difficult personal experience uncovering a strangely silenced scandalous, global and current environmental and public health disaster.
Direction
Andrés weaponizes personal loss into unflinching investigative art.
Writing
Narrative structure that weaves memoir and muckraking with surgical precision.
Director
Isabel Andrés
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Asbestos remains legal in roughly 70 countries; this film joins a sparse but growing wave of documentaries forcing accountability for 'slow violence' environmental crimes.
Andrés deliberately mirrors the 'invisible' nature of asbestos fibers with her cinematography — microscopic threats, macroscopic consequences.
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