A small community in Northeast Alabama. A mayor whose town sits on the river’s banks. A businessman in the Mobile Bay. All of these communities are impacted by coal ash in Alabama.

Coal Ash, a pollution by-product of burning coal, is impacting communities across Alabama. Billions of tons of ash are stored in unlined pits alongside our rivers and stream causing harmful pollution such as mercury, arsenic, and many other heavy metal to be dumped into our rivers, lakes, and bays where we fish, swim, and drink. This film tells the grim story of coal ash in Alabama and what you can do to call on the electric utility companies to become leaders by cleaning up the pollution they have created.

Homelessness along the Santa Ana River has increased exponentially over the past decade near Riverside, California, causing frustration among community members and health concerns for both the people living along the river as well as the River itself. This short documentary explores life along the river and tells the complicated story of activism to save the river.

This film was created as part of the 2021 Jackson Wild Media Lab.
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Produced, Directed, Filmed & Edited by: Ryan Wilkes, Amogh Thakkar, Anusha Shankar, David Diaz
Featuring: Nancy Bockino, Colin Wann
Produced in association with Jackson Wild Media Lab, Day's Edge Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios