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An award-winning American documentary filmmaker, Mike O’Connell is visiting the Hunter and Queensland to film stories about the impact of coal mining on people and landscapes - as well as details of the global resource acquisition strategy that Chinese Government funded companies are engaged in worldwide, and the issue known as ‘the resource curse’.
His award-winning documentary ‘Mountain Top Removal’ that we are screening in Newcastle is described by Al Gore as:
"A story of personal determination and courage. It's also a story about the terrible impact on families in the communities that are victimized by the way in which the coal is being removed from the tops of mountains in Appalachia. This film really brings out the human dimensions of this because you see it through the eyes of a family that's greatly affected and you feel it in the emotions of a small town that has really been hurt a lot."
Antrim Caskey, a photojournalist who is accompanying Mike O'Connell to Australia, will also offer a slide show of her work in Appalachia. Over the past five years Antrim has been reporting on the human and environmental costs of mountaintop removal coal mining.
This event is a fundraiser for Climate Camp Action
