Plum Island - A Reckoning with Public Land
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
Plum Island has been off-limits for 70 years, shielded by the ocean and armed guards. A political move is designed to push the island out of reach for good, but it meets local resistance. Meanwhile, o…
Plum Island - A Reckoning with Public Land
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
Plum Island has been off-limits for 70 years, shielded by the ocean and armed guards. A political move is designed to push the island out of reach for good, but it meets local resistance. Meanwhile, one of the region's Native tribes fights for recognition. Who inherits the land, who controls the truth, and who decides the destiny of our last wild places? These are the questions filmmaker Thomas Halaczinsky delves into with his 90-minute documentary Plum Island – A Reckoning with Public Land. Over the course of eight years, the film follows activists and politicians in a tug-of-war. The focus is on two women: biologist Louise Harrison and Sandi Brewster-walker, the executive director of the Montaukett Indian Nation. Their motives? A deep love of nature. The need to right a centuries-old wrong. Their common goal: Keeping Plum Island out of private hands. Soon enough, the women discover that a major victory really is a start-from-here point in disguise. Set against the backdrop of saving public land, Plum Island is a cinematic reckoning with America's unresolved contradictions: ideals and profits, science and suspicion, forward-thinking and nostalgia, dispossession and belonging.
Plum Island - A Reckoning with Public Land
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Plum Island has been off-limits for 70 years, shielded by the ocean and armed guards. A political move is designed to push the island out of reach for good, but it meets local resistance. Meanwhile, one of the region's Native tribes fights for recognition.
Who inherits the land, who controls the truth, and who decides the destiny of our last wild places? These are the questions filmmaker Thomas Halaczinsky delves into with his 90-minute documentary Plum Island – A Reckoning with Public Land. Over the course of eight years, the film follows activists and politicians in a tug-of-war. The focus is on two women: biologist Louise Harrison and Sandi Brewster-walker, the executive director of the Montaukett Indian Nation.
Their motives? A deep love of nature. The need to right a centuries-old wrong. Their common goal: Keeping Plum Island out of private hands.
Soon enough, the women discover that a major victory really is a start-from-here point in disguise. Set against the backdrop of saving public land, Plum Island is a cinematic reckoning with America's unresolved contradictions: ideals and profits, science and suspicion, forward-thinking and nostalgia, dispossession and belonging..