Films

Giants Do Fall

Residential neighborhood borders industrial refinery with towering structures.

Who benefits from the production of fossil fuels and petrochemicals, and who bears the burden? Exasperated citizens of Louisiana and Appalachia’s Rust Belt, communities where petrochemical plant pollution and fracking have become a routine, rise to demand accountability and protection for their home.

Giants Do Fall exposes the historical injustice and corruption that have impacted the health and economy of a once thriving community. It serves as an affirmation to the remarkable power ordinary people can weird when united to defend what they value most.

Discussion with director Megan Ponder.