The Great Invisible
Filmfest 2015
USA 2014
Original version
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Margaret Brown
Section: International Independents
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing the worst oil spill in American history. Alabama-born Margaret Brown spent four years traveling in the small towns and major cities all around the Gulf, talking to those affected. Brown gained the trust of a wide range of people – from industry insiders to small-town fishermen, from lawyers administering BP's faulty compensation fund to the shell-shocked survivors of the initial blast (one of whom provides chilling first-person video taken onboard the Deepwater Horizon in the days leading up to the disaster). Together, their testimony adds up to a damning portrait of an industry whose lack of government oversight led to unthinkable catastrophe – a lack of oversight that has not changed, despite the widespread outrage at the time.
Radius-TWC
With: (Dokumentarfilm) Douglas Harold Brown, Robert L. Cavnar, Kenneth Feinberg, Roosevelt Harris, Keith Jones
Credits
Director of Photography: Jeffrey Peixoto, Jody Lee Lipes, Adam Stone
Film Editor: Robin Schwartz, Tyler Hubby
Composer: David Wingo
Producer: Jason Orans, Julie Goldman, Margaret Brown
Production Company: Participant Media
Co-Producer: Pamela Ryan, Kyle Martin, Joshua Penn
Director: Margaret Brown