Local Heroes

Filmed over three years with unique access to the private side of China, the second in this series of five stunningly beautiful and extraordinarily intimate films continues the stories of Chinese school children, mothers and journalists investigating the effects of climate change across this vast country. The episode includes the first footage filmed of a snow leopard in China, but as a young Tibetan monk discovers, its habitat is threatened by a planned dam on the Yangtze river. Four schoolchildren investigate why people in their town are suffering from mystery illnesses and a young mother takes on the might of a factory in her town which she believes is causing cancer amongt its inhabitants.