Join Ground War director Andrew Nisker at the 19th annual Planet in Focus Closing Night Gala. Dr. John Francis, The Planetwalker, will also be in attendance and presented with PiF's 2018 Eco-Hero award.
An intensely personal piece, Andrew Nisker's Ground War is an investigation into the death of the filmmaker's father. Harold Nisker was a “health nut,” a man who exercised diligently. For decades, Harold played golf every day except for winter: it kept him fit and he loved the game. It was only after his father's shocking death by cancer that Andrew, an investigative documentarian, began to wonder why the golf course he played in was so uniformly green and manicured. Nisker embarks on a journey that takes him to the original quite weedy and bumpy Scottish golf course, Donald Trump's Americanized version of it, and a look at what causes cancer.
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