Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated their creation. Sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was actually, from its onset, fissured by the interwoven needs of private and public interests. Schmitt's film covers various locations through time, as the major industries of the early 20th century (mining, lumber, oil) give way to the military, eventually leading to multinational corporations, and the use of small towns as satellites for growing urban metropolises.
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
Ultimate Christian Wrestling
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
Still Life
Maison du Bonheur
Vannacht worden we Vrouwen
Bim Bam Boom, Las Luchas Morenas
Dagny - om jag sätter mig ner nu dör jag
First Daughter and the Black Snake
Children of the Market
Maestras Voluntarias
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