Praise was in plentiful supply, but the content of the documentary made a lot of people angry.
The multi-award winning documentary, Atlantic, aired on RTÉ One on Thursday night, a documentary made by the same team behind the acclaimed 2010 documentary The Pipe (which covered the controversial Shell pipeline off the west coast of Ireland) and narrated by Brendan Gleeson.
Atlantic started out as a crowd-funding project and took five years to make and the end result is a compelling and at times disturbing account of three coastal communities in Ireland, Newfoundland and Norway and their struggle to cope with oil exploration and industrial fishing in their waters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIARJ_Ss1w
Clip via Atlantic Stream
Those who tuned into Atlantic on RTÉ One on Thursday night expressed praise for its quality, yet the overriding emotion was one of anger at officialdom for the exploitation of resources and its effect on coastal communities.
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https://twitter.com/beyourownreason/status/806990410006597632
https://twitter.com/bearaboi/status/806989630931402752
https://twitter.com/ruairimckiernan/status/806989795083898880
https://twitter.com/MarkMcHugh1/status/806998290340446208
https://twitter.com/Buailtin/status/807006987078746113
https://twitter.com/niallspace/status/807006628579016704
https://twitter.com/ABhoysVoice/status/806998631337328640
https://twitter.com/HarryWalsh65/status/806996830600986626
https://twitter.com/waynebrereton/status/807030419455700996
You can watch Atlantic on the RTÉ Player
here.
You can also vote for it as your favourite Irish film of 2016 on scannain.com
here.
