Kate Mara & David Lowery To Executive Produce Documentary ‘The Smell Of Money’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy nominee Kate Mara and The Green Knight filmmaker David Lowery have boarded Shawn Bannon’s feature documentary, The Smell of Money, which centers around Elsie Herring and her North Carolina community as they square off with the multibillion-dollar pork industry, which has been spraying animal waste on their homes and land for decades.The pic, written by Jamie Berger, will premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival and the Hot Docs Film Festival.Bannon also producers.
Michelle Cho serves as associate producer.A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery, Herring and her rural North Carolina community are fighting the world’s largest pork company for their freedom to enjoy clean air, pure water, and a life without the stench of sh**..Sitting on her front porch one sunny day in the 1980s, she felt droplets pouring down on her––but a revolting odor made clear that what landed on her skin and clothes was not rain.
The farmer next door had begun spraying hog waste into the air to empty the pit of manure housed on his farm, a practice he and thousands of other North Carolina hog farmers continue to this day.It was then that Herring decided to take on the pork industry, as did other North Carolina residents affected by its pollution.
For decades, she and her colleagues signed petitions, contacted elected officials, and even testified before the United States Congress––to no avail.
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