- Produced by UK Green Film Festival
- Price Members £9.20, concessions £10.50, standard £11.50
- Get ready to hear from the crew, family, and gulf residents still haunted by the Deepwater Horizon explosion
- Bring along anyone that enjoyed Beasts Of The Southern Wild- the topic at hand will recognise the subject matter
- Surf to Tickets
- See you at Barbican
In April 2010, communities across the Gulf Coast of the US were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art offshore oil-drilling rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
“Though at its heart a work of advocacy, this documentary about the aftermath of BP’s disastrous oil spill is nuanced and cinematic”
The Guardian, ★★★★
The blast killed 11 of the rig’s 126 crewmembers and injured many more, setting off a fireball that could be seen 35 miles away. After two days ablaze, the Deepwater Horizon sank, causing the largest offshore oil spill in American history. The spill flowed unabated for almost three months, dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of oil in the ocean, shutting down the local fishing industry, polluting the fragile ecosystem and raising serious questions about the safety of continued offshore drilling.
Award-winning documentarian Margaret Brown travels to small towns and major cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of the disaster on the people of the region. Eyewitnesses reconstruct the spill and its aftermath in their own words, creating a vivid picture of the deadly accident and its consequences.
The UK Green Film Festival is a nationwide network of film lovers and green thinkers. The 2016 edition of the festival will take place in cinemas across the UK from 1st - 8th May.
