Austin Film Festival 2011

Darwin is a documentary film about an isolated community in Death Valley, California. Expelled from society by tragic turns, the people of Darwin (population 35) must find ways to coexist in a place without a government, a church, jobs, or children. The near-ghost town's survival depends on a fragile, gravity-fed waterline that descends from the mountains where top secret weapons are being tested. One 'accidental' drop of a bomb, they half-joke, could wipe out their entire town.









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