Stink!
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Description
Stink! by Jon J. Whelan begins with a foul-smelling pair of children’s pajamas and widens into a consumer-health investigation about hidden chemicals in everyday products. Following Whelan’s attempts to get straight answers from retailers, manufacturers, labs, and regulators, it shows how “fragrance” and trade-secret protections can keep ingredient risks obscure to ordinary families. By staying rooted in household exposure rather than abstract policy alone, it gives its warnings a practical edge around labeling, transparency, and what people bring into the home each day.
Director / Filmmaker
Jon J. Whelan
About the Director / Filmmaker
Jon J. Whelan, director, producer, and writer, came to documentary from entrepreneurship and investing, then turned that outsider route into a first-person investigative style. Festival and film profiles identify Stink! as his breakthrough nonfiction feature and present him as a self-directed maker rather than a television-trained documentarian. What emerges around him is a consumer-advocacy impulse, a personal point of entry, and an independently produced approach to issue-driven reporting.
Jon J. Whelan, director, producer, and writer, came to documentary from entrepreneurship and investing, then turned that outsider route into a first-person investigative style. Festival and film profiles identify Stink! as his breakthrough nonfiction feature and present him as a self-directed maker rather than a television-trained documentarian. What emerges around him is a consumer-advocacy impulse, a personal point of entry, and an independently produced approach to issue-driven reporting.
Topic
Detoxing, Chronic Illnesses
Who It’s Best For
Anyone scrutinizing everyday products for hidden chemical exposure, weak labeling, or regulatory loopholes is the right audience here. It also speaks to parents who no longer trust “safe enough” standards when buying for the home.
Production Company / Studio
Net Return Entertainment
Approach
A consumer mystery becomes the entry point, then widens into an inquiry about fragrance secrecy, chemical regulation, and corporate opacity. Personal stakes keep the narrative moving, but the overall build is plainly accusatory rather than institutionally detached.
Duration
91 Minutes
Year
2015
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