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PIPE NATION

By Raoul BHATT

HARDWELL PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Drama - Development 2022

As an oil pipeline nears completion, a group of roughnecks clash with a rural township, cutthroat ecowarriors, and a vicious motorcycle gang to get the job done.

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Toronto Independant Film Festival 2022
Best Cinematography
Vancouver Independant Film Festival 2022
Best Cinematography
Indie Cinema Awards 2022
Best TV Pilot
Festival for Drama Film & Writing Los Angeles 2022 2022
Best Feature Film
Toronto Independant Film Festival 2022 2022
Best Directing
Toronto Independant Film Festival 2022
Best Costume
Toronto Independant Film Festival 2022
Best Makeup
Toronto Independant Film Festival 2022
Best Actress
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, TV Series, Action/Adventure
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-CANADA
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Raoul BHATT
    • Writer(s)
    • Raoul BHATT, Daniel SVEDBERG, Krishna TAILOR
    • Producer(s)
    • Raoul BHATT (Hardwell Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • When the pipeline is first proposed, RITA, a sharp-dressed overseer from the Steelex Corporation, has a smile on her face as she lies to the good people of HARDWELL. She promises, “a breath of fresh air,” and “a boom to the local economy,” knowing full well what they’ll truly be getting. What she says doesn’t matter anyway, Steelex’s prior lobbying efforts and the dissenting voices she had silenced made the town hall pitch a formality from the get-go.

      What Rita delivers to Hardwell is KILOMETER 72, a campsite for the traveling construction team assembling the pipe. The “fresh air” the city unwittingly breathes in is a steady import of contractors looking to blow off steam in the off-hours. Some are upstanding company men with families, many are charming troublemakers indulging in the quasi-anonymity that comes with working hundreds of kilometers from home. While substantial, the boom Rita described is felt mostly by the local bars, strip clubs, and dope dealers.

      Fortunately for the town of Hardwell, not everyone stationed at Kilometer 72 is a womanizing, drug-addled thug. ASHLEY is a good soul with a cool to her that makes insane pressure look weightless, even in juggling her role as peacekeeper among her crew and the responsibility of facilitating Steelex’s build. Her steadiness is a useful skill, but a double-edged blade as it’s often hard for her to see how close she is to buckling. For years, her exceptionally thick skin has allowed her to hang with the close-knit team of crude, hot-headed engineers she calls a second family. As she steps into her new position as project foreman, the pressure to prove herself is higher than ever, lives are on the line, and her team’s worksite near Kilometer 72 is their toughest assignment yet given its hostile terrain and erratic weather.

      Her team might be tight, but none of them are aware that Ashley had planned to hang up her hardhat for good before she got the promotion. As a young single mother, the allure of wiping months’ worth of debt clean with a few weeks’ intense work has always been a no-brainer. Lately, though, the weight of leaving her pre-teen daughter AVA to live with her mother WENDY has sunk deeper into the fabric of her being. Watching her kid grow up in bursts is a miserable side-effect of the short-term profit Steelex provides, and the gap between the two of them is widening as Ava awakens to what Ashley does for a living.

      Nagging at Ashley’s conscience as she wrestles with her decision to leave this life behind is the unshakeable feeling that mother nature has manifested her wrath in the hearts of people opposing the pipeline’s completion. As if the job itself weren’t dangerous enough, Hardwell has become a staging area for the sabotaging efforts of the increasingly desperate Green Movement. Every day that Ashley and her team inch the pipeline closer to the border, the activists’ efforts to halt it grow bolder and more violent.
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