Demon Fault, The

Elizabeth Tadic
Australia, documentary, 2002
52 mins. (MiniDV)

Miners, environmentalists, police, landowners, politicians and Aboriginal people come head to head in a deadly serious yet crazy battle over a gold mine, located in a sacred and ecologically sensitive region of Australia's fast-disappearing wilderness. Each character passionately pursues the one thing they most treasure. For some it's gold. For others, it's water. But for everyone, it's survival.