Husband-and-wife team of independent filmmakers LORENA LUCIANO and FILIPPO PISCOPO shine a spotlight on one of the worst (yet least publicized) industrial contamination disasters in the United States — billions of gallons of coal waste dumped in the waterways and dwarfing the BP Gulf oil spill.
Granted exclusive access by the legal team, and capturing with eloquent cinema verite’-style the local community’s everyday life, the directors expose a serious case of environmental wrongdoing from all angles – including the coal company’s standpoint - while bringing an important story of human suffering into focus.
COAL RUSH offers an unprecedented look at some of the most pressing social and environmental issues in America today – concerns over toxins in US tap water, rural poverty, corporate malfeasance, and government failings – through the universally-appealing story of a highly controversial legal saga.
