Red Gold

Imagine a pristine Alaskan watershed with the most productive Sockeye salmon rivers in the world, teeming with millions of native fish pushing up river to spawn.  Now imagine the world's largest open pit gold and copper mine at their headwaters. 
 The team
From L to R, the production team:  Lauren Oakes (Trout Unlimited, Alaska), Ben Knight and Travis Rummel (both of Felt Soul Media).  (Photo by Ben Knight)
Produced by  Felt Soul Media and Trout Unlimited Alaska, Red Gold is a one-hour documentary film on the proposed Pebble Mine told through the voices of commercial, subsistence and sport fishermen of Bristol Bay, Alaska.

“This has been the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life,” co-director Ben Knight told festivalgoers who gathered for the Mountainfilm Awards ceremony.  

 "We want this film to spread awareness across the globe that this unmatched resource may be threatened by massive mining development.  After 70 days in the Bristol Bay region asking questions, listening to the stories, and witnessing first hand the massive salmon migration, we believe this place needs to be protected."  - Travis Rummel, Co-Director RED GOLD. 

Want to host a screening?  A fund-raiser?  Contact Emily Long, Marketing and Distribution Coordinator at emilylong@feltsoulmedia.com.

Sockeye spawning
Spawning Sockeye, Kvichak River. (Photo by Ben Knight)
Stay tuned for an updated schedule of screenings and festival showings.  Look for Red Gold Alaska Premiere in August, 2008.

DVDs will be available in Fall 2008. 
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 Thank you to all those who helped make Red Gold possible.  The list is tremendous, and you’re in the credits.

Redington RIO SAGE  BRUNTON GERBER
patagonia SCOTT SEAL LINE THERMAREST R.L. Winston Rod Co.
William Joseph Abel The Fly Shop

Red Gold is Felt Soul Media’s first full-feature documentary.  Check out clips from shorter films The Hatch (Winner Best Documentary Gotham Film Festival 2005, Finalist in the Banff & Telluride Mountain Film Festivals 2005) and Running Down the Man (Winner Best Film at The Drake magazine’s Fly Fishing Film Festival 2006, Finalist Taos Mountain Film Festival 2006).