Film Shorts and Discussion: Sulfide Mining and Tar Sand Spills in Great Lakes

Donations gratefully accepted to help complete the films.

Details on the film “The Echo Maker”:

This project to be completed by Hypha Films will share voices of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and other Anishinaabe people located in the region, and focus on the effect of the Kennecott-Rio Tinto Eagle Mine upon the Anishinaabe and their homelands. The video short will build awareness within the KBIC and other tribal and non-Native communities in the region. It will also serve as the first step towards a broader documentary envisioned centered on the Great Lakes Region as a whole and the threat of 19% of the worlds fresh water supply due to the cumulative impacts of previous, current, and proposed mining. Grant funds could help to support travel, logistical execution, subject/peoples bridging, on-site documentation, post production and community outreach (screenings, schools, film festivals, competitions, museums, etc.).
Full Length Documentary Featuring Additional Locations & Issues: Hypha Films larger goal is to produce a full length documentary film in partnership with additional communities of the region that will highlight the effects of mining upon the peoples, land, and water of the Great Lakes region. For instance, not only is the region directly threatened by numerous prospective mines, but tar sands pipelines built by the Enbridge Energy Company also threaten the Great Lakeʼs waterways and have already led to the largest oil spill in Midwest history in the town of Marshall, Michigan which contaminated Battle Creek, the Kalamazoo River and Lake Michigan.