More often than not, the “global warming” hubbub is presented to us detached and distant– like a snuff film starring the Earth that we watch on TV, slightly horrified and mostly stunned stupid. But for Southern Louisianans not only does climate change present itself as visible, prescient, commonly known fact but it also determines an entire way of life–it’s rapidly destroying the road they use to go see their grandparents, it ruins the shrimp crop that makes up their livelihood, and it makes rebuilding your home a near yearly activity.

What follows are links to some articles about the very community in Southern Louisiana where this is happening, the very same community where we’re making the movie. Our film focuses on towns like this–people on the very edge, literally and figuratively, of our global disaster’s front line. We have the environmental dynamics come to a head in a matter of days instead of years, but the issues faced are the same:

What are you expected to do when your natural environment breaks down? When land sinks in front of your eyes?

How do you deal with a government that cuts you out of its protection?

That tries to pay you off to leave the only home you’ve ever known?

Our film makes an attempt to answer these questions through human drama. But for the people we’ve come to know on Isle de Jean Charles, in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, in Dulac, this is no fictional story.