Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Documentary features ND oil boomtown's gritty side

This photo from a film provided by Drafthouse Films shows Pastor Jay Reinke addressing the Overnighters from his church pulpit in a scene from the documentary "The Overnighters" that was filmed in North Dakota. The documentary looks at the gritty side of life in North Dakota's booming oil patch. It follows a Williston pastor who opened his church and later his home to migrant workers arriving to the boomtown down and out. The move sparked controversy when people in the growing town found out sex offenders were living in the church. It’s scheduled to be released in October. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Drafthouse Films) WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — When filmmaker Jesse Moss started hearing about the North Dakota oil boom that was creating overnight millionaires and drawing workers from around the country to a seemingly endless number of high-paying jobs, he imagined there was a darker side of the story.








via Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News
Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)