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:
2025 Cinema Eye Spotlight Award
FACT Award for best investigative documentary, CPH:DOX 2024 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sustainable Future Award, Sydney International Film Festival 2024  (Sydney, Australia)
Special Jury Mention, Another Way Film Festival 2024 (Madrid, Spain) 
Special Jury Mention, DOC NYC 2024 (US)

Film Festivals:
CPH:DOX (Denmark) March 2024
It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival (Brazil) April 2024
Hong Kong International Film Festival (China) April 2024
Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Poland) May 2024
Sydney Film Festival (Australia) May 2024
Sheffield Doc Fest (England) June 2024
MDOC Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival (Portugal) July 2024
Dokufest (Kosovo), August 2024
Lemesos International Documentary Festival (Cyprus) August 2024
Visioni dal Mondo (Italy) September 2024
Folkestone Doc Fest (England) October 2024
Another Way Film Festival (Madrid) October 2024
EQUIS (Ecuador) November 2024
DOC NYC (US/NYC) November 2024
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Budapest and other cities in Hungary) November 2024

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
Bloomberg Philanthropies
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