Texas Gold Launches Filmmakers Quest Unreasonable Woman Takes on the Most Polluted Place in America

Texas Gold, a new documentary film about Texas fisherman Diane Wilson's fight against the giants of the petro-chemical industry premiers at the 2005 Palm Springs International Film Festival of Shorts on Sept 23.

(PRWEB) September 22, 2005 -- Texas Gold, a new documentary film about one womans fight against the giants of the petro-chemical industry premiers at the 2005 Palm Springs International Film Festival of Shorts on Sept 23. Texas Gold follows the story of Diane Wilson, a fourth generation fisherman and mother of five who believes that putting ones life on the line is when real change happens," says Bay Area filmmaker Carolyn Scott.

Diane began her life of environmental activism in 1989 after learning that her small Texas county had been named the most toxic place in America," says Scott. This revelation along with a mass die off of dolphins along the Gulf Coast and the slow death of her once thriving fishing community propelled Diane to take bulldog-like action.

We sit on the edge of a global ecological crisis, yet most Americans dont know it," says Scott. Diane Wilson represents a growing number of self proclaimed Unreasonable Women" who work round-the-clock to find solutions to this crisis."

Texas Gold places us smack in the middle of Diane Wilsons quest to stop polluting industries from destroying the air, water and earth around us. Emotionally raw and spontaneous, the film captures Diane in action on one of her many hunger strikes, talking with Lucky Bucky, a former fisherman—rail-thin and riddled with cancer and illegally chaining herself on the top platform of a Dow Chemical water tower. This last action landed Diane a six month jail sentence. Her decision to bottle water from a local government designated Superfund Site and sell it back to the business men who created the murky polluted water—Texas Gold— reveals even more about the humor, heart and soul of this extraordinary woman. Actor and Bay Area resident Peter Coyote narrates the film along with a Texas Gold bottled water commercial.

Conceived as an eco-detective story with a fair amount of humor and a sense of adventure, Scott has crafted her first film in the ambitious Quest To Save Turtle Island documentary series. The Quest series portrays the lives of sixteen extraordinary women activists from around the world who work to find solutions for the global ecological crisis. Scotts next film in this series features the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Wangari Muta Maathai.

Texas Gold screens at The Palm Springs International Film Festival of Shorts on Sept. 23. And has been invited to participate at the Bioneers Moving Image Festival in San Rafael, CA on Oct. 14, Climate Protection Campaign Event on Oct. 21, and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival held Oct. 20-30.

Texas Gold credits include Carolyn Scott, Director, Writer and Producer, Academy Award nominated Director and Cinematographer, Vicente Franco, Stamatis Marinos, Writer and Editor, Patricia Pagaling, Co-Producer, Peter Coyote, Narrator and Patsy Northcutt, Line Producer.

The film was made possible through the support of a Roy W. Dean Writers Grant, the Frederick E. Steck Foundation, Tides Foundation and TELOS Project.

Texas Gold is a production of Turtle Island Films, Santa Rosa, California.
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For more information or to schedule an interview contact Carolyn Scott at 707.538.8633 or Nancy Dyal at 415.533.7124.

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