Last Stand on the Island (2014)

LAST STAND ON THE ISLAND (USA, in production, 2011-2014) Deep in the bayous of South Louisiana, Edison Dardar, Sr. is arming himself against anyone who tries to move him off the island he loves, a narrow ridge of marsh that is vanishing into the Gulf of Mexico. As Chief of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, Albert Naquin's mission is to find a safe place on the mainland for his people before the next hurricanes wipes them away. Edison's departure seems unlikely despite the sound reasons anybody may present to him. His roots run deep into the waters surrounding Isle de Jean Charles. His ancestors were French pirates who took Indian wives and settled this once lushly forested swamp in the early 1800s. But after five hurricanes in the last decade, of the original twenty-four square miles, only a half-mile remains. Edison and his neighbors are about to become the first environmental refugees in the continental United States. Yet their crusade to remain on the island until its catastrophic end is a testament to the strength of their identity and ancestry, despite the mounting pressures of nature, industry and fellow humans.