Deep in the heart of Siberian coal country is a city with nine massive open pit mines and one independent journalist. A taut and revelatory thriller which shines new light on the human cost of coal. Executive Producer: Erin Brockovich. Producer: Kirstine Barfod (The Cave) and Alina Simone. Editor: Aleks Gezentsvey (Navalny). Director: Alina Simone. DP: Natalia Zubkova and Alina Simone

Premiere: CPH:DOX 2024

Awards:
CINEMA EYE SPOTLIGHT AWARD
FACT AWARD / CPH:DOX (Best Investigative Documentary)
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE AWARD / Sydney International Film Festival
AMDOCS / Best Feature
INTERNATIONAL GREEN FILM AWARD / Cinema for Peace
ACTIVIST LENS AWARD / Movies That Matter
MICHAEL SULLIVAN AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARY JOURNALISM / Salem Film Festival
SPECIAL JURY MENTION / DOC NYC
SPECIAL JURY MENTION / Another Way Film Festival
SIMA DOCUMENTARY JURY PRIZE
ALAN E LEWIS MORAL COURAGE IN LEADERSHIP AWARD For Natalia Zubkova / Alnoba Foundation

Film Festivals:
CPH:DOX (Denmark) 
It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival (Brazil) 
Hong Kong International Film Festival (China) 
Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Poland) 
Sydney Film Festival (Australia) 
Sheffield Doc Fest (England) 
MDOC Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival (Portugal) 
Dokufest (Kosovo)
Lemesos International Documentary Festival (Cyprus) 
Visioni dal Mondo (Italy) 
Folkestone Doc Fest (England) 
Another Way Film Festival (Madrid) 
EQUIS (Ecuador) 
DOC NYC (US/NYC)
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Budapest and other cities in Hungary) 
DOCPOINT (Helsinki, Finland)
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Montana, USA)
ArtDocFest (Riga, Latvia)
Athena Film Festival (NYC, US), American Documentary and Animation Film Festival (Palm Springs, US),
One World International Human Rights Film Festival (Prague, Czech Republic)
Movies that Matter (The Hague, Netherlands)
DC Environmental Film Festival (Washington DC, US)
Salem Film Festival (Massachusetts, US)
One World Brussels (Brussels, Belgium) 
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival (Brazil)
Seoul International ECO Film Festival (Seoul, Korea)
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (VT, US)
AmDocs North (Alaska, US)

Supported by:
Catalyst Film Fund
Doc Society
Justice for Journalists Foundation
Andrews Berends Fellowship
Sara’s Wish Foundation
International Documentary Association (IDA) Enterprise Documentary Fund
Fork Films
Redford Center
NYC Women in Film Fund
Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship
NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Film
The Gotham Documentary Feature Lab
Film Independent Documentary Lab
Chicken & Egg Films