Founded in 2008 by filmmaker Jane Wells, 3 Generations is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in New York City that uses the power of storytelling to amplify the voices of survivors, create witnesses and inspire change. For more information visit here.
Born in London, Simon Brook works between France, the UK and the USA. He has written, directed and produced documentaries and drama for Canal+, ARTE, BBC Storyville, Discovery Channel USA, France 2, France 3, France 5, RTBF, BBC 4 music, The Documentary Channel Canada, SBS, and more.
Both Wells and Brooks will be available after the screening for questions.
As a final comment, this writer has fallen in love with the landscape of North Dakota and has witnessed the wells, the traffic, the flares, the destruction of the night sky, and dust where there were once fertile fields. I have spoken to prostitutes and know someone who committed suicide there because of the brutality of the man-camps near Fort Berthold. This is a place where children have been found playing with discarded radioactive "socks."
I spoke with an elderly woman who was forced out of a $300 dollar a month apartment when the greedy landlord realized he could soak the oil workers for $3000. I have seen men living in tree houses and hookers plying the hotels and streets of Bismarck. Now, there are abandoned campers littering salvage yards, deserted man-camps and half finished housing projects that have become the ghost towns of the 21st century.
I researched and learned about murder-for-hire in the Bakken that included characters and locations ready made for Hollywood. Mexican drug lords, FBI gumshoes and a character known as GimpDaddy--a name no one could make up for a novel. All these stories had tragic endings.
You see, oil crashed, but market analysts say it is on the way up again.
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