Tapped
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Description
Tapped by Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey investigates the bottled water industry from source to shelf, showing how a public resource became a branded consumer product. It moves beyond litter and ocean waste into plastic production, weak regulation, disputed safety claims, and the communities drawn into extraction and disposal. Consumer convenience drives the story, but the burden lands elsewhere: on local water systems, families, and ecosystems that absorb the environmental and economic costs of extraction, packaging, transport, and plastic waste.
Director / Filmmaker
Stephanie Soechtig, Jason Lindsey
About the Director / Filmmaker
Stephanie Soechtig, director, writer, and producer, and Jason Lindsey, co-director, writer, and editor, make a credible two-person pairing because their strengths are visibly different. Soechtig’s career runs through Atlas Films and a series of pointed public-interest documentaries, including Fed Up, Under the Gun, and The Devil We Know. Lindsey comes from the image and post-production side, with editing, photography, and visual construction central to how he works.
Stephanie Soechtig, director, writer, and producer, and Jason Lindsey, co-director, writer, and editor, make a credible two-person pairing because their strengths are visibly different. Soechtig’s career runs through Atlas Films and a series of pointed public-interest documentaries, including Fed Up, Under the Gun, and The Devil We Know. Lindsey comes from the image and post-production side, with editing, photography, and visual construction central to how he works.
Topic
Detoxing, Chronic Illnesses
Who It’s Best For
Anyone questioning why bottled water became normal despite plastic waste, privatization, and weak public trust is the right audience here. A second fit is viewers who treat water less as a product choice than a political and infrastructure question.
Production Company / Studio
Atlas Films
Approach
Corporate investigation provides the backbone, tracing bottled water through extraction sites, marketing claims, contamination concerns, and plastic waste. The build is prosecutorial from the start, arranging evidence to indict an industry rather than probe it neutrally.
Duration
76 Minutes
Year
2009
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