
Unearth: Doctober Film Screening

RE Sources and SeaFeast are partnering with The Pickford Film Center to bring two showings of Unearth to Doctober: Friday, October 3rd at 5:20 p.m. and Monday, October 20 at 7:40 p.m. Join us for this award-winning documentary about the fight against the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, as well as a post-screening discussion exploring the intertwined nature of ecosystems, fisheries, and indigenous ways of life, and the threat extractive industries pose to them all.
About the film: In this doc produced by none other than Erin Brockovich, two sets of siblings—the Salmon sisters and the Strickland brothers—take on the federal government and a massive mining company to try and halt development of the Pebble Mine. If approved, the giant open-pit gold and copper mine would be built in the Bristol Bay watershed, with devastating impacts to the sensitive ecosystem, home to what is considered the world’s greatest sockeye salmon run. Bristol Bay exists at the nexus of economic, cultural, and environmental importance to the region, and the fight to stop it is nothing short of a fight for a way of life for Native Alaskans.