“Broken Landscape” Wins Environmental Reporting Award From Society of Environmental Journalists

 WASHINGTON – Broken Landscape has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the category of Outstanding Feature Story by the Society of Environmental Journalists' Awards for Reporting on the Environment.

Broken Landscape: : Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point examines the impact of “rat-hole” coal mining in India’s resource-rich Meghalaya State on the environment and the people who depend on it. Shot on site in Meghalaya during the introduction of new laws regulating rat-hole mining and the subsequent pushback from mine owners and workers, the film captures the lives of those on the front lines of India’s water-energy choke point.

Judges for the SEJ awards found the film engaging with a fresh, very human story. "I liked the way the author allowed the people to tell their stories,” wrote one judge.

The Choke Point India project, a collaboration between the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue, examines the country’s conflicting demands for water, energy, and food through front-line reporting, data, and policy expertise.

View the full press release from the Society of Environmental Journalists here

Notes to Editors:

1. Broken Landscape is a production of the Woodrow Wilson Center in association with Circle of Blue and Think Out Loud Productions. The film was directed and produced by Michael T. Miller; co-produced by Sean Peoples; with supervising producers Jennifer L. Turner and Meaghan E. Parker.

1. The Wilson Center provides a strictly nonpartisan space for the worlds of policymaking and scholarship to interact. By conducting relevant and timely research and promoting dialogue from all perspectives, it works to address the critical current and emerging challenges confronting the United States and the world.