BLUE CAST Ep2 - Roger + Michael
THE DARK SIDE OF THE DENIM INDUSTRY
This BLUE CAST Episode, Michael Kininmonth talks with award winning Director/Producer Roger Williams.
Roger Williams, a veteran Canadian filmmaker, took his camera to some the most wretched and despoiled areas of the global denim manufacturing industry. —China, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. Williams, was the film’s executive producer, director and cinematographer. Listen to the backstory about why one environmental activist claims that “We are committing hydrocide. We are deliberately murdering our rivers”.
Michael Kininmonth has spent the whole of his 45 years working life in textiles. He trained at University of Bolton in the UK. He has had a wide and varied career spanning fiber spinning through to garment production, woven and knits through to non-woven composites, apparel fabrics through to medical textiles. He joined the then only UK-based denim mill, Smith & Nephew, back in 1974. He is widely travelled and is the holder of several textile patents. He joined Courtaulds just after the launch of TENCEL™, and still has the scars to prove it. He is now employed by Lenzing Fibers as Business Development Manager. His currently responsibilities are split between sustainability and denim projects. Michael lives in Nottingham in the UK along with his wife Julia, 2 children Alex and Olivia and the dog Eddy.
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BLUE CAST by TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®
A pod cast series created by Michael Kininmonth and Tricia Carey from Lenzing. Each month they each will host Podcast with a special guest and in-depth talks in the fringes of the Denim Community.
Graphics, recording and editing by Mohsin Sajid and Sadia Rafique from ENDRIME® for TENCEL™ / CARVED IN BLUE®.
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