Cape Wind: The movie

I had thought I knew everything about the Cape Wind project, that is, until I bumped into Libby Handros at a March federal hearing over whether the proposed 130-turbine project should be nixed because of impacts on historical properties and Native Americans traditional spiritual sun greetings.

For the last three years Handros and colleagues have been filming a feature-length documentary on the nine-year permitting drama for the nation's first proposed offshore wind farm. Cape Wind: The Fight for the Future of Power in America is expected to be completed in August and will air on the Sundance Channel in 2011. (Full disclosure: they are interviewing me for the show).

No matter what side you are on, it's hard not to get a real taste of the politics and personalities involved in the nation’s first offshore wind farm by watching the four-minute trailer (below). There is even a reference to Jaws that is hysterical. Here’s the show’s website.

The film will be a feature length documentary written, produced and directed by Robbie Gemmel and Daniel Coffin of Rebirth Productions in association with Sundance Channel.