PUBLIC TRUST Produced by Jeremy Hunter Rubingh
PUBLIC TRUST is a feature-length documentary about America’s system of public lands and the fight to protect them. Despite support from voters across the political spectrum, our public lands face unprecedented threats from extractive industries and the politicians in their pockets. Part love letter, part political exposé, Public Trust investigates how we arrived at this precarious moment through three heated conflicts—a national monument in the Utah desert, a mine in the Boundary Waters and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—and makes a case for their continued protection. Watch the full film now: PUBLIC TRUST
Winner: Audience Award, MountainFilm; Winner: Audience Award, Woods Hole Film Festival; Winner: Audience Award, Ashland Independent Film Festival; Winner: Big Sky Award, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; Winner: Special Jury Prize Port Townsend Film Festival; Winner: Green Fire Award, American Conservation Film Festival
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Directed by David Byars and Produced by Jeremy Hunter Rubingh
Executive Producers Yvon Chouinard & Robert Redford
Edited by Lyman Smith
Original Score by Stephanie Nicora & Bill Reynolds
Ripples from the Cannonball In production...
Ripples from the Cannonball documents paddlers from the Colville, Kalispel, Coeur d’Alene and Sinixt Tribes as they launch traditional canoes at the headwaters of the Missouri in western Montana, paddling for hundreds of miles to the water protector camp adjacent to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. While the paddlers were told it was impossible to float the Missouri this time of year, they forged ahead. They camped along frozen banks and paddled through snow and ice, all while holding the intention to support and embolden those who continued to stand strong in protest of a massive pipeline project through ancestral lands as a brutal North Dakota winter approached. This is a film about adventure, indigenous rights, conservation and the unity and positive momentum that comes out of historical moments like Standing Rock. This film is also a survey about the important role of protest in the United States today. Four years after the stand on the Cannonball River, we come full circle to a new President-elect. This film asks what we have learned from Standing Rock, and what does it actually take to stop a massive oil/fossil fuels project as citizens in this country realize we are in a climate crisis? Are these fights going to be our future? With Trump reversing the Obama decision on the pipeline and pushing it through, was this stand a failure? As we pick our president and elected officials again and fall further and further behind in addressing climate change, there is a sense of urgency to share this story far and wide.
THE COLD EDGE In production...
Climate Change is the most immense challenge humans have collectively ever faced. Anytime we have taken any giant leap into changing the world for good we have needed creativity, courage and incredible amounts of love. The Cold Edge takes a unique look at a community that is bound together globally, one that is ready to rise to the challenge, one that approaches the universe and life in a completely unique and inspiring way. This is your community, the ski bums that find inspiration on the edge, in the cold, deep in the mountains...