Please join Wake Forest University School of Medicine's Center for Planetary and Human Health for a special screening of GenX: The Saga of Forever Chemicals. This event will feature a screening of the film, followed by a conversation with its director and producer, Eli Yetter-Bowman and Sammy Bauer. We are also pleased to welcome Geoff Gisler, Program Director at the Southern Environmental Law Center, as a special guest to the panel. Together, they will explore the issues highlighted in the film and their broader implications for environmental and public health. We look forward to a thought-provoking and engaging discussion.

RSVP here: go.wfu.edu/genX

Event details

October 16th, 2026
5.30 pm 
Broyhill Auditorium, in Farrell Hall

Film Details:

GENX is a 9-year investigation about the poisoning of the Cape Fear River and its ties to a global pollution coverup.

Since the 1980s companies have dumped toxic forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River, but locals only learned the truth after 40 years of exposure. This was due to a key collaboration between NC state researchers, local journalists, and passionate advocates. The expose on PFAS actually began in West Virginia, revealed by a small-town farmer and lawyer, who helped uncover internal corporate documents showing how far back, widespread, and dangerous these chemicals can be. Their efforts to confront and stop this are thwarted by a cycle, with substitution chemicals like GenX, allowing polluters to continue business as usual despite evidence of danger. The film further shows how each community impacted by PFAS is intimately linked and offers a model for how we can break the cycle forever.