Red Gold

See the list of Red Gold Screenings and Broadcasts

 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)
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.  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. Visit the film's site, www.redgoldfilm.com.

“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.  

Sockeye spawning
Spawning Sockeye, Kvichak River. (Photo by Ben Knight)

 "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. 

»See "Red Gold" mentioned in the September 2008 issue of Outside magazine. Download the PDF (1.7 MB).



Upcoming Screenings:

Taos Mountain Film Festival Taos, N.M. October 9 - 12, 2008
Camden International Film Festival Camden, M.E. September 25 - 28, 2008
Newburyport Documentary Film Festival Newburyport, M.A. September 26 - 28, 2008
National Geographic Headquarters Washington, D.C. November 14, 2008
American University Washington, D.C. November 18, 2008
The Lincoln Center New York City, N.Y. January 6, 2009


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

DVDs are now avaliable at www.redgoldfilm.com. Click on "DVD" on the bottom right and order today.

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).