Black Snow
When the residents of a remote Siberian coal mining town discover that an abandoned mine has caught fire and toxic gas is pouring into their homes, they turn to independent journalist Natalia Zubkova for help. But when her news coverage of the coal fire goes viral, the government launches a massive effort to cover up the truth. In the shadow of an increasingly authoritarian government, Natalia embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the full extent of the environmental disaster unfolding in her midst. With filmmaker Alina Simone by her side, the journalistic thriller ‘Black Snow’ documents not only the coal scandal over four turbulent years, but the equally dirty tactics of Russia’s modern surveillance state – not to mention the courage to come forward and draw the attention of the authorities at a time when Russia is closing in on itself.
Alina Simone is a Ukrainian-born journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Long Read, among many others. Her articles have been featured on best-of lists in The Atlantic, NPR and Rolling Stone, and have been optioned for film by major studios. She is the author of an essay collection and a novel, and has taught writing at Yale University. Simone is the recipient of the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, an NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship and the Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow (2024) is her first documentary feature film.
A film bemutatását az Egyesült Államok Külügyminisztériuma támogatta. A filmben szereplő és elhangzó vélemények, és következtetések a szerzőké, és nem feltétlen tükrözik az Egyesült Államok Külügyminisztériumának álláspontját.
