The Limestone Conflict
Shot during Petter Ringbom’s residency at the Ingmar Bergman estate, the nonfiction short The Limestone Conflict is primarily a research document for Asunden, a hybrid nonfiction feature in development.
The fight over limestone mining on Gotland, the largest island in Sweden, has become a highly charged, local manifestation of a conflict you find all over the world, a conflict pinning industry and jobs against the environment. In The Limestone Conflict, we meet three representatives from different sides of the issue that has divided the island. An activist, a miner, and a local land owner all tell their stories, and give us a glimpse into why this has become such a divisive conflict.
Format: Short (Feature in Development)
Roles: Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Editor
Screenings: Gothenburg Intl. Film Festival, Telluride Mountainfilm, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
Awards: Envirofilm Festival, Slovakia (Best Short Film)
Team: Museum of Love (Original Score), Grandslam Film (Producers for Asunden)
Asunden
Hybrid Feature in Development
After an environmental activist goes missing on a Swedish island, his long departed American mother returns and finds a community torn apart by the fight over limestone mining in the Asunden forest. Inspired by actual events on the island of Gotland, the film explores the fissures in a community and in a broken family.
Asunden was selected to the MIDPOINT Feature Launch script and development program where it won the Rotterdam Lab Scholarship Award. The project received a research grant from Gotland Film Lab at the Ingmar Bergman Estate.