Topic: The documentary covers the Mora County, NM fracking ban, the first county in the United States to do so. Interviews with attorneys, activists, and elected officials. Attorneys like Jeffery Haas, and Thomas Linzey, along with elected officials like John Olivas, activists like Kathleen Dudley and Anita Laran tell the story of what happened there.
Funding and Partners: The Levinson Foundation working with the Mora County Economic Development Corporation. Other potential partners include The Healy Foundation and a Generosity campaignwww.generosity.com/
"David Luis Leal Cortez's documentary on the Mora County citizen grassroots effort to assert their rights to quality life--health, clean air, water, a quality future for their children. And in doing so, the country government passed a new law that sent the oil and gas industries scurrying away to grab bigger guns.
This is David's monumental work to distill the seven year citizen effort. A salty juxtaposition to John Nichols' "Milagro Bean field War" footage. He makes his point well. And in conjunction with Frank Water's "People of the Valley," it is apparent that the people of Mora County are tenacious with clear values of what matters in a good life well lived.