Arid Lands (Trailer) - by Grant Aaker & Josh Wallaert

Winner of 11 film festival awards, now on DVD (98 min.)

Arid Lands is an independent documentary about the land and people of the Columbia Basin in southeastern Washington state. Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history.

Arid Lands takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, environmental activists, and radiation scientists living and working in the area. It tells the story of how people changed the landscape over time, and how the landscape affected their lives.

Read reviews and buy the DVD at http://www.sidelongfilms.com

Directed by Grant Aaker & Josh Wallaert

Trailer music by Lee Cullivan at http://www.shoothead.com

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Hanford
• Site
• Nuclear
• Columbia
• River
• Tri-Cities
• Pasco
• Richland
• Washington
• Documentary
• Film
• Trailer
• Environmental

[Readerchick08]

Wow what an interesting video. I live in Richland and it's interesting to see a different perspective of Hanford. Kind of scary too. Very nice job!

[DecommMan]

I lived there 3 years and loved it.

[TheBlakeWilliamson]

i live here(:

[jude999]

This film changed my persepctive on film making---the cinemetography, lack of narrator, music, and detached point of view are all revolutionary for me.

[fourthwallseal]

I live in the Tri Cities, and have lived here for all my life, and I think it's one of the most beautiful cities in the whole world. The hills and landscape are gorgeous.

[daffordile]

I lived in richland for 8 months. I cannot imagine how people could survive there. When you wake p in the morning and open your door, what you see is baren mountains- without a single tree.

[EASullivan]

My mother worked at Hanford and we all lived downwind of Rocky Flats. To date, my mother, my sister, my sister's kids and I have all been diagnosed with thyroid disease. As an aging Boomer, I'm wondering whether the world's populations will ever really understand the Cold War, with all the open-air A- and H- bomb explosions, was really World War III and a global nuclear war?

[Grimson84]

I was really pleased with the overall direction this documentary took. I used to live much closer to the river but I still maintain a close connection to the area. I loved the different perspectives offered, and I thought the directors did a terrific job of making me see the area in which I grew up in so many different lights.

[Donnyj77]

I'm a local here in Pasco about 15 miles down river from the Hanford site. I've lived here my whole life. I had no idea that this was the largest radio active clean up site in the world. No wonder cost of living is low here.

[RockinJoeDavis]

This is excellent work, why don't you make another? I have studied Hanford in my M.Sc. environmental program at UBC in Canada, it is well known and a very expensive remediation project. There is TCE with a radioactive groundwater mix which is very deadly, this radioactive groundwater could potentially reach the Columbia River and destroy fish and habitiat for ever. The cost of clean up is huge, so is the downside. Radioactive isotopes however are another ballgame, very deadly.