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GRIT - Trailer Feature Film – Documentary

Directed by
Cynthia Wade
    • Award Winner, Colorado International Activism Film Festival
    • Grand Prize, Best Feature Film, Seoul Eco Film Festival, Winner
    • Audience Choice Award, Seoul Eco Film Festival, Winner
    • Best Documentary Award, Ecozine Film Festival, Spain, Winner
    • Jonathan Daniels Social Justice Award, Monadnock Film Festival, Winner
    • Ashland Film Festival, Jury Prize, Winner
    • Yale Environmental Film Festival, Grand Jury Winner
    • KAU KA HŌKŪ AWARD, Hawaii International Film Festival, Nominee
    • Movies that Matter Film Festival, Activist Documentary Award, Nominee
    • Festival International de Films de Créteil, “Graine de Cinéphage” Nominee

Filmmaker Cynthia Wade and Sasha Friedlander focus their gaze on the communities of Sidoarjo, of East Java, Indonesia, where a drilling company is believed to be responsible for one of the largest environmental disaster in recent history. Grit had its national broadcast debut on the PBS documentary series POV and pov.org on Monday, September 9 at 10 p.m.