Bay Saint Louis, MS – The controversial new short documentary CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST premieres at 100 Men Hall on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 7:00PM. This is a community event and is free to the public. There will be a cash/credit bar. A question and answer session with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST TRAILER:
A compact and surprisingly comic in-depth expose of the massive deforestation required to deliver the nation’s most popular bath tissue brand, CHARMIN WIPES OUT A FOREST lays bare an eye-popping account of devastation, destruction and human and animal harm with wry humor and shockingly positive message: this is a big problem you can do something about.
“In a world filled with depressing news, this is one issue that folks can take individual action to help solve a very stupid problem,” said the film’s producer Brian Rodgers.“In a free-market economy the most American thing you can do is buy something. The second most American thing you can do is not buy something. That’s all we’re asking folks to do.”
Filmed on location in the boreal forest of Canada and featuring an array of scientists, experts and members of the descendants of the family that founded the company that manufactures Charmin, the film presents a tight, entertaining story designed to reach main stream consumers with a story that can easily have a happy ending.
The premiere kicked off a 23 city video truck tour of the film that includes Dallas, Bentonville, AR, Cincinnati, OH, NYC, Washington, DC, Winston-Salem, NC and Atlanta, GA. “The tour is an effort to reach regular people with a positive message about a small thing they can do to make the world a better place,” said the film’s director Steve Mims.
The historical 100 Men Hall, a Must See Venue by Rolling Stone Magazine, winner of the 2024 MS Governor’s Award for Excellence for Arts in the Community, a rare site on the MS Blues Trail, is maintained and preserved under a 501c3 nonprofit organization (Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association, est. 1894). The Hall is supported by its membership organization 100 WOMEN DBA, as well as from the generosity of sponsors and donors. The 100 Men Hall is the only endowed African American landmark in Mississippi.Additional information about the venue’s history and other activities can be found on https://100menhall.comor by emailing 100menhall@gmail.com.
