Two recent films of interest
This Changes Everything
From the film's website:
Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
The film will be shown at a number of national and international film festivals starting this month and then will open in select theatres next month.
Here's the film's trailer:
Overburden
While This Changes Everything looks at the big picture of climate change, Overburden examines mountaintop removal in West Virginia and how it affected the lives of two women. From the film's website:
Overburden is the story of a fiery, pro-coal right-winger and a tenacious, environmentalist grandmother as they take on the most dangerous coal company in America. These two lives intertwine as Betty and Lorelei unite to launch the first wind farm in coal country and to rebuild their fractured community.
The film has been featured and will be featured at a number of upcoming film festivals including the American Conservation Film Festival in Shepherdstown later next month.
Here's the film's trailer: