Smelterville; A story of a company town

Deadwood Gultch, Smelterville are somewhat foreboding names for an area of houses in the Bunker Hill company town of Kellogg Idaho. In few U.S. communities is the intimate connection between industrialization and environmental health more striking. 20% of the children in Kellogg had lead levels indicating lead poisoning that requires hospitalization. Smelterville examines the economic, political and business forces which shape and make inevitable health problems that are faced by small communities and how the company and state health department tried to cover it up. A film created with support of an American Film Institute (AFI) Filmmakers Grant to Ken Light