LOS ANGELES (AFP) - a new film to protest us coal mines and featuring Robert f. Kennedy Jr. objectives to stimulate green alternatives such as wind power and to emphasize the "criminal" destruction by the industry.
Change five years after "An Inconvenient Truth," film of landmark of Al Gore on climate, "The last mountain" officials hope that the documentary will engage viewers through the history of a community of Virginia threatened by the "Big coal."
"'An inconvenient truth' awakened the world to the dangers of climate change, so that it had not been awakened before," said the Director Bill Haney.
But "what you as individuals can do to dispute the interest to be, that create this problem..." "It has not," he told AFP, saying that he would be happy if his film has as much success as the former Vice President Al Gore.
The film opens Friday in New York and Washington and will be published in other cities of the United States in the coming weeks.
The film tells the story of a community of the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia taking on Massey Energy, one of the largest coal producers in the United States, trying to stop its practice of the Summit of the mountain reference to mine coal seams.
Kennedy, Member of the family policy staged U.S. and an environment fleure, is shown joining the demonstrators in the coal River Valley as they fight to preserve their health and the environment.
"I was a little reluctant to commit to make a film just because he was more sensitive for other types of advocacy and really did not know much about the realization of films," Kennedy said, describing his initial reaction to the project.
But after he met Haney, he decided he could "articulating the link between democracy and the environment" and help fight Massey in West Virginia, where he has long been involved.
"Virtually the whole industry is a criminal enterprise, and I do not say that lightly," he told AFP.
Surprising, the film provides relatively generous time, mining patterns and workers saying vital how the industry is jobs during difficult economic times.
Haney contrasts his film with more directly documentaries polemical, such as Michael Moore, including "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11" and the film of health services "sicko."
"I really respect the realization of films of Michael Moore and his talent, but he clearly polemical." I do not say that there is no objection to that, I say that this is what they are. This is not what I do, he said.
While much of the film following the protest, including demonstrators in the tree-top and activists against the impact on health on a local school, it shows also develop alternative solutions, such as the construction of wind turbines of people.
Kennedy argues that the coal industry is, ultimately, can exist without the help of policies.
"If we had a real free market, coal could not operate on the market." It is simply too expensive. And oil could not work. If we pay at the pump for the war in Iraq, we would be off the coast of the day to the next oil. ?
Kennedy also draws comparisons with oil spill Deepwater Horizon of the year last in the Gulf of Mexico, which took place in the edition of the film.
"It's the same story, different location," he said.
Haney cited as saying that the spill, the U.S. authorities blame on oil British giant BP, was the largest environmental disaster in the history of the country.
"But Massey overflowed... two times more waste and not in the deep ocean and the salt water where it disperses, but in the rivers of the nation, fresh water supply." So, if this is the worst, Massey is twice the worst?
"It give us a perspective to help the public, which saw huge media coverage of oil from BP spill and very little coverage of this tip of coal.
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