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‘Black Snow,’ Portrait of Russian Erin Brockovich From ‘The Cave’ Producer, Boarded by Cinephil (EXCLUSIVE)
Alina Simone’s U.S. doc ‘Black Snow,’ produced by Oscar-nominated Kirstine Barfod, has been snapped up by Cinephil ahead of CPH:DOX.
For her doc feature debut, due to world premiere at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX in the F:ACT competition program, Ukraine-born Simone has teamed up with Academy Award-nominated producer Kirstine Barfod(“ The Cave ”). Her fight against corruption in the Russian coal mining industry, and the eco-disaster in her Siberian hometown of Kiselyovsk (dubbed the “Death Valley” of Russia by the Wall Street Journal) makes her an enemy of the state. But the reporter simply won’t accept the hyper exploitation of open pit coal mines and lack of filtration that turns snow into an apocalyptic black color and fills the water with worms.
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