Margaret Brown, The Great Invisible

Making any documentary has its challenges, but for Alabama-born and raised Margaret Brown, The Great Invisible was simply a matter of "being in the right place at the right time" to get funding for her look at the 2010 BP Oil disaster; she explains in her winning mosaic which focuses on the people whose lives were disrupted as it pieces together the acts and rippling consequences of America’s greatest environmental tragedy (so far). The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion that cost 11 lives and spilled 178 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was caused by BP’s carelessness and cost-cutting – and has had no effect on the booming oil exploration that continues in the Gulf.

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