Dark Horizon: a documentary about the Gulf oil disaster

Dark Horizon is a feature documentary about the BP oil disaster that tells the stories of those most impacted and confronts those most responsible.

Unlike many other documentaries about environmental disasters, this one is entertaining, funny, and exciting, and not only sad, frustrating, and overwhelming.

In May 2010 filmakers from GreenerMedia travelled down from Brooklyn to New Orleans with the intention of making a documentary about people directly affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. They’d heard that BP was paying out of work fishermen to clean the oil, and we wanted to hear some of their stories. At first the fishermen were closed off and unwilling to appear on camera.

After three days of documentary filmmaking that felt a bit like investigative journalism, they found their subjects and ended up with some great footage. Watch the short film below to see their work:

Dark Horizon: A Documentary about the Gulf Oil Disaster from Greener Media on Vimeo.

However, at greenermedia they still need funding to go back and finish the feature film. Donate below or click here for more information: