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Impact Campaign

 The film team has developed an impact campaign to be launched with the release of the film. The campaign will drive large scale action on climate issues in 2022 and will be run by the Abaunza Group and Bonnie Abaunza, one of the leading impact producers in the world. Our impact partners have a combined membership of over 15 million. They include Sunrise Movement, Our Revolution, 350.org, Surfrider, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food and Water Watch, Public Citizen, Clean Water Action, Sierra Club, EWG, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a network of regional action groups.  Actions will focus attention on human health issues in fossil fuel development and climate change and screenings will include college campuses, environmental actions, US and state Congress, and more. – Please ask to see the complete impact plan.

Film log line

Secretly filmed over nine years, an oil industry insider exposes the devastating consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill and uncovers a public health disaster and the coordination between government and industry to silence the victims. 

Film synopsis

The Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 was the world’s worst offshore oil drilling accident in history. The resulting oil spill contaminated 68,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened the lives of six million people. To make the oil go away, toxic chemicals called 'dispersants' were sprayed in unprecedented amounts. In the months and years after the disaster, the world has been led to believe that the 'clean-up' was a success, the dispersants were harmless, and life is back to normal. An oil field insider knew the official story was suspect and began to investigate. What he finds is a far different story.  

From BP employees to clean-up volunteers to coastal residents and even innocent vacationers, Gulf Coast families and communities of all ages, races, and classes are suffering chronic illness, cancer, and premature death at rates far above national averages. The common link among the victims: all were exposed to oil and dispersants. 

The cover-up has been successful, and a dangerous precedent has been set for the use of toxic dispersants in all future oil spills: ports around the world are stocked and pre-approved for deployment. Hiding this catastrophe paved the way for the 2018 Trump administration’s announcement of the most extensive offshore oil development plan in fossil fuel history. Implementation of that plan began in early 2019 and, to date, continues under the Biden administration.