'Great Invisible' focuses on the human ecosystem that was caught up in the disaster caused by the blowout and explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. Included in this web are survivors like Steven Stone who points to where he was on the rig when it exploded.

‘The Great Invisible’ Wins Full Frame’s Best Environmental Film

Environmental winner documents the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the ecosystem — the human ecosystem.

With the first weekend of April in the rearview mirror, so is, for Durhamites and aficionados of documentary film, the 2014 edition of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, reportedly the largest of its kind in the United States. Like the weekend’s weather — balmy and spring-like one minute and blustery and cold the next — the festival was eclectic with film topics ranging from Frank Zappa’s 1982 concert in Sicily (view trailer) to the story of volunteers or “interrupters” in Chicago who put themselves in harm’s way to stem the tide of murders ripping apart the city (view

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