Unearth

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 93 min

Synopisis

Amid the global race for critical minerals essential to energy and national security, Bristol Bay’s commercial salmon fishermen and Indigenous leaders confront the prospect of North America’s largest-ever copper mine in their beloved homeland, exposing the mining industry’s systemic recklessness while proving the power of community activism.

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

John “Hunter” Nolan is an award-winning documentary film cinematographer and director specializing in impact filmmaking. As a cinematographer, Hunter is best known for his work on Tehachapi (2023), Paper & Glue (2021), The Game Changers (2019), And We Go Green (2019), The Human Element (2018), Sky Ladder (2016), Before the Flood (2016), and Racing Extinction (2015). Hunter has made his feature directorial debut most recently with UNEARTH (2024). Active as a filmmaker in addressing environmental conservation, endangered species protections, and humanitarian systems, Hunter sees film as a powerful catalyst for raising awareness and driving progress in today’s day and age.