Groundswell
(2021)
Covering ten years of Ireland’s anti-fracking campaign, the film reveals how a small and marginal Irish border community organises to confront the prospect of the shale gas field that straddles that border.
Ireland made history by banning not just fracking but also by importing fracked gas, and the fracking corporations are now pursuing their business over the border in Northern Ireland. A lesson to communities and campaigners there and everywhere else to stay vigilant.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
With interjections of darkly melancholic animation from Ivano A Antonozzo, Groundswell is a triumphant, transparent and aesthetically magnificent account of the loving relationship between people and their land, and the fight to protect it from the powerful and the greedy.
Emma Kiely, theupandcoming.co.uk
There have been few victories in recent Irish environmental history. One such occurrence happened in the summer of 2017 when Ireland became one of the first countries in the world to ban the extraction of Shale Gas, one of the most toxic producers of climate changing gases. This is a rare story of a community standing up to the oil and gas industry and winning.
Due for completion June 2020.