A documentary short about the North Dakota Bakken Shale boom making the rounds at film festivals is scheduled to be screened this week at the Logan Film Festival in Utah. What makes the award-winning film "White Earth" unique is that it is almost exclusively shot from the point-of-view of children whose lives have been affected by living in White Earth, N.D., either because their lifelong home has been overrun by large numbers of people, because their family relocated to the town to find work or because high costs of living have have adversely affected their lives.
One 10-year old girl said, "I've lived in North Dakota all my life, and lately new people have been coming and coming, and it just doesn't stop." A 10-year-old boy, whose family moved to White Earth a year earlier when his dad got a job driving a bulldozer, said, "I moved here in the summer. Whenever it came to be winter time, I was like wow, this is awesome, and then I was like wow, this is horrible." The film was directed by J. Christian Jensen. To view the Facebook page click here.
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