Utah filmmaker Abby Ellis premiered “The Lake” at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The documentary examines the environmental decline of the Great Salt Lake and the people fighting to reverse it.
“The film is about an environmental nuclear bomb here in Utah, known as the Great Salt Lake, which is drying up, and the lakebed is full of toxic materials, such as arsenic and lead, and other material that we don’t even, that we don’t even know yet,” Ellis said on KPCW’s “Local News Hour,” Wednesday. “The film follows a handful of people from science to politics working to not only better understand this crisis, but also how they can stop it before it takes off.”
Monday’s screening will be the film’s first public showing since its Sundance debut. Ellis says one of the biggest lessons she learned while making the documentary is that this crisis is human-caused and can be reversed if leaders choose to act…