INVISIBLE HAND

A “plot-twisting, eye-opening” story about the current global battle where the fight for clean water and our survival are at stake.

Friday, April 14 at 7:30pm
Zoom Q/A with Directors Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman

Directors: Melissa Troutman & Joshua Pribanic
Producers: Melissa Troutman & Joshua Pribanic

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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.

"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."

Director, Melissa Troutman