SYNOPSIS Goldrush in the Carpathians. Rosia Montana has been thrown into a state of disarray ever since the arrival of a Romanian gold mining corporation with powerful Canadian shareholders. The corporation is planning on razing a large portion of the town and its surroundings to the ground in order to gain access to the rock there, which happens to hold the largest gold deposits in Europe. The mining process will involve the use of highly toxic cyanide to extract the gold from the rock. Arguably a necessary risk to spur economic development in the area and bring jobs in the region, but potentially fatal for the local environment and the beautiful landscape. The people are poised to lose their homes. Many of them have chosen resettlement in big cities, but a small group of inhabitants are battling against the Company and defending their homes with all they have. The pressure continues to rise in Rosia Montana, not least of all due to the high price of gold these days. A long-standing fight of the people in a deeply divided village where the division between opponents and supporters of the mining project even splits families down the middle. (Fabian Daub) TEAM DIRECTOR: Fabian Daub SET MANAGER: Hans Hedrich DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ulf Behrens, Ingo Scheel SOUND: Michael Gentner, Robert Fuhrmann, Aaron Figursky, Iris Mayer EDITOR: Astrid Rieger SOUNDDESIGN: Michael Gentner MUSIC: Zarada GRAPHICS: Iris Mayer TRANSLATIONS: Hans Hedrich, Katharina Schulte, Aaron Figursky COLOUR CORRECTION: Rosali Jung TITLEDESIGN: Christoph Lohse WEBSITE: Can Sungu PRODUCTION: Bildfolge Dokumentarfilm TECHNICAL INFOS CAPTURING FORMAT: FullHD, 16:9 SOFTWARE: Final Cut Pro FESTIVAL PARICIPATION ASTRA Documentary Festival Sibiu (International Premiere), Filmfest Hamburg 2012 (World premiere), Documentary Film Festival Kassel 2012, This Human World Topkino Vienna 2012, Tour de Lorraine Bern 2012, Sofia International Film Festival 2012, Aljazeeras Documentary Film Festival Doha 2013, Gallway Filmfleath 2013, Pelicam Film Festival Tulcea 2013, Naturvision Ludwigsburg 2013, International Film Festival Split 2013, Filmfest Osnabrück 2013, DOK Leipzig DOK Market 2013, International Film Weekend Würzburg 2014 AWARDS Special Award "Best Romanian Documentary" Astra Filmfestival Sibiu 1st Jury Award Aljazeeras Documentary Film Festival Doha special mention Best Talent Naturvision Ludwigsburg