Colorado Environmental Film Festival 2008

Cultural anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Zachary Fink paints this poignant and lyrical portrait of a changing American West as he chronicles the hardships of rural Coloradans forced to adapt to the conditions brought by the encroaching presence of the natural gas industry. Over the course of a year, amid the transformation of the Rocky Mountain landscape from wide-open ranchland to a patchwork of natural-gas drilling sites, Fink follows three locals to determine how the energy boom has affected their lives and livelihoods.