Three Pines Production Co.

TOLEDO, OH — The Park Center For Independent Media announced this years winners of the 17th Annual Izzy Awards, including the documentary “Trainwreck In Trump Country,” directed by Toledo filmmaker Mike Balonek, produced by The Real News Network, and featuring TRNN’s Maximillian Alvarez and the Pittsburgh Union Progress’s Steve Mellon doing on the ground reporting about the aftermath of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Wow! What an amazing first weekend of filming for our new film about the UAW and rise of Shawn Fain and the first directly elected president of the auto workers union.

TOLEDO, OH — The Big Problem In The Great Lakes, a documentary on the Toledo Water Crisis of 2014 and the issue with algal blooms in Lake Erie, has quickly gone viral on YouTube since being released on the crisis’ ten year anniversary—August 2, 2024—according to the film’s local creator, Three Pines Production Company.

TOLEDO, OH — Today, Three Pines Production Company LLC of Toledo, Ohio released their documentary The Big Problem In The Great Lakes. The film tells the tale of the Toledo Water Crisis of 2014 as well as exploring the causes of the algal blooms that formed in western Lake Erie that forced the City of Toledo to declare its tap water unsafe to use.

TOLEDO, OH — Today, Three Pines Production Company LLC of Toledo, Ohio officially announced the new documentary The Big Problem In The Great Lakes, recounting the Toledo Water Crisis of 2014, as well as investigating the causes of the algal blooms that formed in Lake Erie that led to the City of Toledo declaring its tap water not safe to use. The film will be released on the ten year anniversary of the Water Crisis, August 2, 2024. The company is also releasing a trailer for the film today.

Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz spoke eloquently on the need for better regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations in the Maumee River Watershed, as well as the improvements the City of Toledo has made to the water system in order to protect against the toxins produced by algal blooms in Lake Erie’s Western Basin.

(Photo Credit: Katie Pfanz)

We learned a lot about the algae crisis in the Western Basin of Lake Erie in our interview with Dr. Greg Dick of the University of Michigan.

It was a delight meeting Kim, an activist with Lake Erie Advocates, and learning about her experience during the Toledo Water Crisis of 2014 and how it brought her to be a part of the group.