Nominated! National Emmy - Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story
Winner! Best Film With Environmental Theme - Plymouth Independent Film Festival "An incisive and unrelenting portrayal of a small northern mining town's codependent & ultimately tragic 40-year relationship with the company that sustained it." – Colin Chisholm, Mother Jones
NATIONAL BROADCAST ON PBS' P.O.V.
Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana lies the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in U.S. history. In the small town of Libby, many hundreds of people are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure. Libby, Montana takes a long working day's journey into a blue-collar community, and finds a different reality — one where the American Dream exacts a terrible price.
"If the political pressure to prosecute Grace's executives to the full extent of the law persists, it will be due in part to this deeply moving film. Many critics have praised the 'objectivity' of filmmakers Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr; what they mean is that the directors let the headlines, residents, and Lovick tell the story. This time-tested documentary technique seems fresh in the wake of last year's much-more-publicized and vocally political Fahrenheit 9/11, but at its root is the recognition that Libby, Montana isn't a red-state or blue-state story. It is a story about American democracy and American capitalism, and the battle that must constantly be waged to keep the latter from consuming the former." - San Antonio Current
