Produced by award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo, INVISIBLE HAND takes you behind the curtain of the global economy where ‘Rights of Nature’ becomes capitalism’s one true opponent.
In the fall of 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist’ in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. For attempting such a radical act, Grant’s rural community of 700 people were sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and also locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home through civil disobedience. The water they drink, the Rights to Nature laws they’ve passed are all on the line in this exclusive story.
Director Melissa Troutman
"When I started reporting about fracking, I naively assumed that if pollution occurred it would be dealt with – especially water contamination because, after all, we drink the stuff. I thought the problem was that our elected public officials simply didn’t know about it."
A gripping documentary that traces an invisible conspiracy to control the world's water. Garbriela Cowperthwaite's newest film is an investigative thriller that offers a great deal of insight into the truth behind the colonization of our world's most precious natural resource WATER. It follows journalist Nathan Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting and his team as they track leaked documents. The title refers to the land GRAB done by governments in China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other powerful entities around the world as they try to gain control of food and water outside their borders.
The Investigative Team
Gabriela Cowperthwaite became seasoned at cultivating whistleblowers and uncovering secrets when her 2013 documentary BLACKFISH, brought major changes to SeaWorld. It remains one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time.
Award-winning reporter Nathan Halverson at the Center for Investigative Reporting in California, valiantly worked to peel back the cover-ups, often at great personal risk.
Commercial interests push us closer to various catastrophes of scarcity. Connect the dots between those Chinese-purchased pigs or a drained aquifer in rural Arizona.
The Grab makes connections between government interests, agrarian concerns and mercenary military organizations all coming together in a snapshot of a race against the clock to control food and water resources.
For twenty years, Patrick Dykstra has dedicated his life to traveling the globe, following, and diving with whales. Over the years, he has learned how whales see and hear, how they perceive other creatures in the water and how they behave at close quarters. In Dominica in 2019, Patrick had a close encounter with a female sperm whale. Patrick felt an overwhelming sense that she was genuinely trying to communicate. Employing stunning cinematography, and with a keen ear tuned to the whale’s song of clicks and whistles, the film follows Patrick as he takes us under the seas again to search for the special whale he named "Dolores," so she can help him show us the hidden world of her species.
Patrick Dykstra on a dive trip in Domenica to find "Dolores."
