Arid Lands @ Northwest Film & Video Festival November 11, 2007

An award-winning documentary feature about the land and people of the Columbia Basin in southeastern Washington state. Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. Arid Lands takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, ecologists, and radiation scientists living and working in the area. It tells the story of how people changed the landscape over time, and how the landscape affected their lives.

Screening at the 34th Annual Northwest Film & Video Festival. Co-director Josh Wallaert will be present for Q&A.

Previously reviewed in the Portland Tribune and Willamette Week

Listen to an interview on Portland's KPOJ 620 AM

Read more about this film at www.sidelongfilms.com

Check out the trailer below.

Official Website: http://www.sidelongfilms.com