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The Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska is home to the Kvichak and Nushagak rivers, the two most prolific sockeye salmon runs left in the world. Mining companies Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American have partnered to propose development of an open-pit and underground mine at the headwaters of the two river systems. The exploration site is the second largest combined deposit of copper, gold, and molybdenum ever discovered and has an estimated value of more than $300 billion.

Despite promises of a clean project by officials, the accident-plagued history of hard rock mining has wrought one of the biggest land use battles Alaska has ever faced. Documenting the growing unrest among native, commercial, and sport-fishermen, Red Gold is a portrait of a unique way of life that will not survive if the salmon don’t return with Bristol Bay’s tide.

redgoldfilm.com | feltsoulmedia.com
  • Daniel Hayek staff 2 years ago
    This looks awesome.
  • Ben Dahl plus 3 months ago
    Having lived there this last summer, yes, it is awesomely beautiful!
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  • Aclara Promotions plus 2 years ago
    Looks incredible, and undoubtedly important. Added to various Channels I think are related to encourage further exposure to your film. Question: who were the artists of each of the songs? And what cameras were you using to shoot this? Cheers.
  • felt soul media plus 2 years ago
    Hi Chris, thanks for your support, we really appreciate it! We just used the HVX 200, and had a back-up that we kept in an underwater housing. The music in the trailer is by Film School and Interpol. Sorry for the delayed response!
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  • Ian Lucero plus 2 years ago
    I just watched your documentary at a friends house in Seattle. He has relatives that live closer to Nushagak Bay but that doesn't matter. It all connects to each other and it seems that that is the point these investors and mining advocates are blind to. They're completely insensitive to the plain facts and truth of what the generations of families that live there have to say.

    This documentary does a good job showing what's there and not sounding so (even though it obviously is) anti-mining. It displays the facts and tell the story of the lives of the people that know and live in that area. The photos and beautiful cinematography tells the story. Why would you want to ruin such an amazing place like this?
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  • On the Fly 2 years ago
    More good shit from you guys - looking forward to seeing it. Really impressed with the pictures you're getting from the HVX.
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  • Aqueous Films 2 years ago
    This is great - I saw it at Kendal Mountain Film Festival.
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  • Green Dog Pictures plus 2 years ago
    Beautiful work guys..
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  • Clay Cooper 2 years ago
    As a Military retiree, I’ve been blessed to go to places on Earth no one has ever gone unless you just happen to live there. I had the pleasure to be stationed at Eielson AFB Alaska for 4 years and traveled to remote places. Gone to many places by boat, ATV and to look down on the many splendors looking out the boom operator’s window of a KC135 Tanker and to see a panoramic view of Moose and thousands of Caribou from high above. I know Alaskans welcome oil and gas exploration and I to approve of it also. But open strip mining, looking at the open pit copper mines south of Tucson Arizona and the water and debris that must be pumped and hauled out must go some place. Strip mining in Alaska HELL NO! I would defend that precious gem! Of all the other places especially in the Lower 48 where strip mining can be managed properly would be a viable option. But in Alaska? NO WAY! The water shed is way too fragile! And why is this an international effort? GET YOUR GRUBY HANDS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!

    For a strip mine to move in, it would be like raping and pillaging a Village. A Village, where everyone knew everyone and helped one another in the worst of times. The riffraff moves in destroying Village values and the way of life passed down thru generations only to be lost to global glut and greed for another’s mineral rather than their own keeping their land intact and pristine for their generations to come. Twenty years would go by, the Villagers who once lived there are gone and so is the Village. Drugs and alcohol has replaced decades of traditions of gatherings and festivals. So gone the American Indian, so gone the Village
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  • Reinaldo Ovando 2 years ago
    I have watch this video so many time and can't understand why people want to destroy that treasure. Actually I know why.
    By the way Great job!!!
    beautifull places.
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  • Alec Eagon plus 2 years ago
    one of the best documentaries i have ever seen. you guys dug down to the core of the human experience and told a real story. very thankful to have Shadyac showed it to us in his class
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  • Collin Waldron 1 year ago
    I saw your documentary at Banff Film Festival a year or so ago. It's a great film with an even greater message. I hope to see more films like this from you guys in the future. Thanks!
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  • "Not just no...but hell no".
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  • Ben Dahl plus 3 months ago
    I lived up in Naknek this last summer and really got to know the people and culture of the Bristol Bay. Their lives depend on the Salmon run, if that were destroyed they would have nothing left. The largest open pit mine in the world on the headwaters of the largest and most delicate Salmon run in the world? Dear God no.
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