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When Clouds Clear is an award winning feature-length documentary that delves into one remote community’s radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever. Set in the isolated cloud forests of the northern Ecuadorian Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junín who depict how the village’s daily life has been affected by copper that were discovered beneath their land.
As two invading mining companies become increasingly brazen in their attempts to infiltrate and control the area, the community forms a united resistance in order to survive. Still, some citizens side with the wealth that the companies promise, causing irreparable divisions, pitting friend against friend and father against son. Suddenly these once-peaceful farmers find themselves thrust into a dangerous world of corruption, splintered households, murder and arson as they fight to protect their land and families.
Danielle Bernstein is a New York based filmmaker from Atlanta, Ga. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts until 2006, the same year she co-founded the production company Clear Films and began working as Co-director/producer/cinematographer for the feature documentary When Clouds Clear. Clear Films is dedicated to helping artists and filmmakers with projects that address social issues and aim to move people to action. She is currently working as an outreach strategist for independent documentaries and the producer and editor of the next Clear Films project, Mothers of a Nation.
Anne Slick was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and began her filmmaking career while in college at NYU. She has worked on the production of projects such as Martin Scorsese’s “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,” a documentary about the early years of the famous musician and archiving the experimental filmmaker Jack Smith’s library of work. Anne has directed and produced a range of experimental documentary shorts and film installations using 16MM, super 8 and video, but When Clouds Clear is her directorial debut for a feature- length documentary. Anne is currently studying for her masters in architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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