Into the Weeds

Into the Weeds
Directed byJennifer Baichwal
Written byJennifer Baichwal
Produced byJennifer Baichwal
Nicholas de Pencier
StarringDewayne "Lee" Johnson
CinematographyNicholas de Pencier
John Price
Edited byRoland Schlimme
David Wharnsby
Production
company
Mercury Films
Release date
  • April 28, 2022 (2022-04-28) (Hot Docs)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Into the Weeds is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and released in 2022.[1] The film centres on Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, the California man whose health problems are claimed to be due to exposure to glyphosate in the herbicide product Roundup led to the landmark Johnson v. Monsanto Co. court case.[2]

The film premiered as the opening film of the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[3] in advance of a planned television broadcast by CBC Television in fall 2022 as an episode of The Passionate Eye.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Hot Docs ’22: Jennifer Baichwal talks Hot Docs opening film “Into the Weeds”". RealScreen, April 28, 2022.
  2. ^ Jennie Punter, "‘Into the Weeds’ Director on Revealing the Effects of Weed-Killer on Human Health and the Environment". Variety, April 29, 2022.
  3. ^ Sadaf Ahsan, "Baichwal’s ‘Into the Weeds’ to open Hot Docs festival heavy on social justice". Toronto Star, March 30, 2022.