Black Hole (2015)

Directed by

Joao Dujon Pereira

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 44m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows activists as they try to stop the expansion of a coal mine in an Australian forest. It shows their protests and interviews key people involved in the campaign.

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What happens

Black Hole is a feature-length documentary film about the blockade opposing the expansion of Whitehaven Coal's Maules Creek coal mine in the Leard State Forest, New South Wales. It was directed and produced by Joao Dujon Pereira and premiered on 3 September 2015 at the Environmental Film Festival Australia in Melbourne. Interview subjects appearing in the film include Jonathan Moylan, an environmental activist responsible for the production and distribution of a fraudulent press release regarding the ANZ Bank's financial relationship with the coal mine in 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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