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One man risks his family and future to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of rural East Texas, <\/span>Above All Else <\/span>follows David Daniel, a retired high-wire artist and circus performer, from the moment that he discovers survey stakes on his land, through years of activism and civic engagement, to four climatic days in September 2012, when Daniel made a final stand against the pipeline. Backed into a legal and financial corner, he rallies an eccentric group of neighbors and environmental activists to join him in a final act of brinkmanship: a tree top blockade of the controversial project. <\/span><\/p>\n

We see pressure mounting from local officials, other East Texas residents, and TransCanada\u2019s legal maneuvers until Daniel is forced to confront his deepest motivations, and the fight becomes, as he says, \u201ca battle in your soul.\u201d Inspired by his example, other East Texas residents and a band of young, Occupy-inspired activists embark on their own acts of civil disobedience with different degrees of success. What begins as a stand against corporate bullying and property rights abuse would become a rallying cry for climate protesters nationwide. <\/span><\/p>\n

Photographed in beautiful, cinematic HD by director\/cinematographer John Fiege, an intimate portrait emerges of unforgettable characters and their East Texas home, interwoven with an exploration of how they were driven to drastic action\u2014ordinary people transformed into political actors through circumstances not of their choosing. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12541,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"languages":[],"countries":[1443],"film_categories":[1223],"master_copies":[],"pricing_grid":[],"press_types":[1191],"class_list":["post-16878","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","countries-united-states-fr","film_categories-extraction-des-ressources-fr","press_types-critique"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbove All Else - Cinema Politica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemapolitica.org\/fr\/film\/above-all-else\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Above All Else - Cinema Politica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One man risks his family and future to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land. 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