Deep Down
People:
Jen Gilomen (Co-Director, Cinematographer)
Sally Rubin (Co-Director, Editor)
David Sutherland (Executive Producer)
Nancy Golden (Co- Executive Producer)
Grants:
$20,000 for audience engagement in Fall/Winter 2010
About the Project
Deep Down puts a human face on the consequences of our environmental impact. Any exploration of power production in America will lead to Appalachia, a region that has supplied our nation with coal for over a century. As America's energy consumption rises, the extraction and burning of coal to meet these demands has dramatically altered the Appalachian landscape, economy, and culture. Few Americans know about mountaintop removal mining (MTR), nor have any knowledge that their own demand for power is directly impacting the mountains, water, and sky.As we increase our energy usage, we also become more and more removed not only from the natural places that have provided this energy, but from the human beings whose lives we dramatically alter by consuming those resources.The crossroads we find ourselves facing as a nation is one that pervades our land and sky, and it can only be addressed by the cumulative efforts of millions of tiny personal changes. The film attempts to reconnect us as humans to the suffering we have caused for the people and the land and understand our power to prevent it in the future.