Who is "Bidder 70?" A new film from husband and wife documentarians George and Beth Gage examines the case of 30-year-old environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who derailed a federal oil and gas lease auction for public land in southern Utah in 2008.
The film, which was shown this week at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York City, follows DeChristopher for three years during the much-delayed criminal investigation and federal trial that culminated in a guilty verdict and his two-year prison sentence in March 2011.
Through the film, DeChristopher's story is punctuated by delays in the trial that ultimately forced him to confront the fate that had been looming over him for so long. Emboldened by the support he received from members of his Unitarian church and the Salt Lake City-based group Peaceful Uprising, DeChristopher visited mountaintop removal mining sites in West Virginia and lent his voice to rallies for...
The film, which was shown this week at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York City, follows DeChristopher for three years during the much-delayed criminal investigation and federal trial that culminated in a guilty verdict and his two-year prison sentence in March 2011.
Through the film, DeChristopher's story is punctuated by delays in the trial that ultimately forced him to confront the fate that had been looming over him for so long. Emboldened by the support he received from members of his Unitarian church and the Salt Lake City-based group Peaceful Uprising, DeChristopher visited mountaintop removal mining sites in West Virginia and lent his voice to rallies for...
- 6/21/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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