Archive: Year 2008
View from the World
Upstream Battle
Director
Ben Kempas
Producer
Joachim Schroeder
Cinematographer
Ben Kempas
Editors
Ben Kempas
Raimund Barthelmes
Contact
Preview Production
Herzog-Rudolf-Str. 1, 80539 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49 89 52036767
Fax: +49 89 52036771
[email protected]
97 min
Color
Native Americans in Northern California fight for their fish and the survival of their culture. An energy corporation has messed up their river with large hydroelectric dams, contributing to one of the worst fish die-offs in history. To confront their opponents, tribal members travel to Scotland and to the second-richest man in America. The dam owners praise hydropower as low-cost, climate-friendly energy. Yet, the Klamath River tribes may trigger the largest dam removal project in the world. A long-term documentary following tribal members, utility managers, and farmers in the basin—all fighting about water.
Ben Kempas is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. He lives in Munich where he studied at the University for Film and Television. His previous films focused on the Sco?ish independence movement, on tabloid television in Germany, on courageous anti-nuclear campaigners, and on a intra-German “border violator”. Ben writes for DOX magazine and is a co-host of The D-Word, a worldwide community of documentary professionals.
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