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Courtesy of the filmmaker.
UNEARTH film still.
The David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center
Ticket price: $16.82
In a documentary film by Hunter Nolan, two sets of siblings learn of plans for a proposed copper mine near their homes in Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay area. The Salmon sisters, Native Alaskans, work on the regulatory front, remaining hyper-vigilant to political pressures that could shift at any moment and pushing the federal EPA to block the project. The Strickland brothers, independent fishermen who know they could be just one mine accident away from losing their livelihood, probe closed-door meetings to expose the truth behind what the developer tells the public.
After the ninety minute screening, director Hunter Nolan will lead a conversation with invited panelists Michael Northrop and Anisa Kamadoli Costa to discuss the film, its environmental themes, and the current status of the case in Bristol Bay. A reception with access to Sketching Light: Chagall’s Windows for Union Church, now on display in the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center gallery, will follow.
Presented in partnership with the RBF’s Sustainable Development program.
Hunter Nolan
Filmmaker
Hunter Nolan is a documentary cinematographer and director best known for his work on Paper & Glue (2021), The Game Changers (2019), and And We Go Green (2019). His work with the artist JR was nominated for a 2019 Emmy Award. Active in environmental conservation and humanitarian issues, Hunter is devoted to improving the world through film. UNEARTH marks his directorial debut.
Michael Northrop
Program Director, Sustainable Development
Michael Northrop is the program director for the Sustainable Development grantmaking program at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund where he focuses on energy and climate change. Northrop also teaches a spring semester course on environmental policy campaigns at the Yale School of Environment and serves on the board of Inside Climate News. Previously, he was executive director of Ashoka, an international development organization that supports “public sector entrepreneurs” and an analyst at First Boston, an investment bank in New York City. Northrop has a Master of Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, where he was an English major as an undergraduate.
Anisa Kamadoli Costa
Chief Sustainability Officer, Rivian; President and Trustee, Rivian Foundation
A respected leader at the nexus of philanthropy and corporate impact, Anisa Kamadoli Costa is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Rivian and founding President & Trustee of the Rivian Foundation. Previously, she served as founding CSO at Tiffany & Co. and Chairman & President of the Tiffany & Co. Foundation. Anisa’s current board service includes the Geraldine R. Dodge and KERING in the Americas foundations. She holds a BA from Barnard College and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs.