IndiePix Adds Bhopali Doc to Catalogue

NEW YORK: IndiePix Films has picked up the distribution rights for the award-winning documentary Bhopali, which tells the story of the survivors of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.

Directed by Van Maximilian Carlson, the doc looks at the 1984 gas leak from Union Carbide owned-and-operated plant in Bhopali, India. More than 25,000 died from causes directly related to this event, which killed thousands immediately after the leak and thousands more throughout the next 27 years from the lingering effects.

IndiePix will be distributing the film theatrically this fall and handling distribution for home video DVD, digital, broadcast and new media throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Bob Alexander, the president of IndiePix, said: "This film is of striking relevance today, not only for the continuing inattention and suffering that is the legacy of this disaster, but for the fundamental questions of corporate responsibility, liability and governance that it so bluntly raises. We are pleased to have the opportunity to present such an important film of such timely significance."