"A Billion Lives" Documentary Garners Official Selection at 2016 Jozi Film Festival in South Africa

LOS ANGELES - Sept. 9, 2016 - PRLog -- The award-winning documentary film A Billion Lives  will premiere in Africa on Sept. 16, 2016 as an official selection of  the 5th Annual Jozi Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Igniting controversy about how anti-smoking forces are attacking the vapor technology industry, A Billion Lives shows that Big Business entities from around the world are colluding to destroy the e-cigarette trade in its infancy, even as vapor technology is helping millions to stop their addiction to cigarettes.

Over 40 million people worldwide are using vapor technology, with many employing it as a means to successfully quit smoking. But, as the film argues, with billions in profits and taxes at stake, corporate conglomerates and the governments they benefit have created a multi-pronged campaign to poison the global population's perception of e-cigarettes and vapor technology in an attempt to crush the emergence of a smoke-free and prescription-free alternative. As a result, these acts are sentencing a billion people to die needlessly from cigarette related diseases in this century, according to World Health Organization (WHO) projections, by withholding a low cost, successful substitute

The film's director/producer Aaron Biebert travels across four continents to reveal why a device that can save so many lives is maligned and discredited in so many countries. During his journey, Biebert uncovers the hidden facts surrounding the vapor technology business, and exposes how pharmaceutical companies, anti-smoking advocacy groups, tobacco companies, and even the U.S. state and federal governments are to blame for the disinformation, over-regulation, and banning of e-cigarettes worldwide.

To prove his case, Biebert captures compelling interviews with leading scientists, doctors, technologists, and policy makers from major international health organizations. Each in turn gives reasoned answers to the very serious question: "Are A Billion Lives being sacrificed for billions of dollars?"

While many countries have banned or moved to ban the technology internationally, A Billion Lives has already made an impact.  In New Zealand this year, just a week after the film premiered at a major film festival, the government announced it is re-examining its ban on vapor technology -- and later defunded some of the organizations speaking out against it.

To view the trailer and obtain additional information, visit ABillionLives.com.

A Billion Lives is a production of Milwaukee, Wisconsin-basedAttention Era Media (http://attentionera.com).Independently funded by the production company, the feature film won the Supreme Jury Prize and Best Director awards at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival when it premiered in Australia (July 2016).