THE LAKE
ADDITIONAL EDITOR

An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from an unprecedented catastrophe. Local Utah filmmaker Abby Ellis intertwines the inextricable fates of the Great Salt Lake, a failing saline body of water, and the millions of people who live, work, and travel around it in away that is both terrifying and motivating, wrought with divinity and doom.​  THE LAKE looks at the interdependency of science and faith, and the power of individuals and communities to avert disaster by working together. It received a Sundance Institute Sandbox Fund grant during its production phase when its working title was The Terminal.

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DIRECTOR: Abby Ellis

PRODUCER: Fletcher Keyes & Abby Ellis

EDITORS: Abby Ellis & Emelie Mahdavian

PARTNERS: Sandbox Films, Ibis Films, Little Monster Films, Appian Way, and Cranium Productions

EXECUTIVE  PRODUCERS: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessica Harrop, Caitlin Mae Burke, E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Anna Barnes, Geralyn Dreyfus, Heather Kahlert​​

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WINNER SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL US DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR IMPACT FOR CHANGE