A gun toting 83-year old woman refuses to sell her house to the power plant next door but the plant has moved ahead with their 20 million dollar deal to buy out most of Cheshire and bulldoze all the homes. What happened in this Ohio River town overrun by one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the world? A story of money, power and the increasingly difficult choices we face surrounding coal and the environment, CHESHIRE, OHIO makes us think twice about home.

Filmed over a decade, CHESHIRE, OHIO follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River community after exposing them to harmful emissions, and then returning several years later to the now almost emptied town as we follow the case of 77 plaintiffs who have filed a lawsuit against American Electric Power for cancer and other diseases they developed from working unprotected at the plant's coal ash landfill site.

As the cycle of pollution from coal continues, we see how one quintessential American town suffers from our reliance on carbon energy.

75 minutes
SDH Captioning for the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing

Directed by Eve Morgenstern
Produced by Eve Morgenstern, Kim Connell
Editor: Kim Connell
Director of Photography: Katherine Patterson
Additional Cinematography: Eve Morgenstern
Senior Story Consultant: Judith Helfand
Music: Red Hooker
Produced by Evenfall LLC and Rainlake Productions in association with Chicken & Egg Pictures

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