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IMPACT PARTNERS FILM “MIDWAY”

As a painter, Susan understands the power of an image and the impact of film. Through Impact Partners, the philanthropic venture film organization Susan and her husband Jim helped to found, they are supporting Midway, a film by Chris Jordon about the albatrosses on the Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

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SUSAN SWARTZ AND IMPACT PARTNERS WITH THREE FILMS AT SUNDANCE 2011

As an environmental and humanitarian activist, Susan knows that documentary film can be one of the most powerful mediums for shedding light on pressing social issues. That’s why Susan and her husband, Jim, are founding members of Impact Partners, a unique organization that brings together filmmakers and investors. In recent years, Impact Partners has helped fund important and award-winning films like The Cove, An Inconvenient Truth, The Garden and Freeheld.

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SUSAN SERVES AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR THE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, THE COVE: MERCURY RISING

Did you know that over 70% of the toxic mercury in our environment is the result of industrial activities and human pollution? Mercury accumulates in the atmosphere and makes its way up the marine food chain, ultimately leading to dangerously high concentrations of the metal in the species of fish favored by many humans, like tuna, swordfish and mackerel. In humans, mercury is a powerful neurotoxin that at elevated levels may lead to cancer, slow growth, brain, and kidney damage. After becoming critically ill with mercury poisoning a decade ago, Susan emerged determined to shed light on this environmental and human health catastrophe. Together with her husband, Jim, and their filmmaking partners, Susan executive produced the impactful film Mercury Rising.

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