"THE LADY ON THE DIVIDE"

In December 1985, after seven years of all volunteer labor, the community of Butte, Montana, installed a figure as large as the Statue of Liberty on the Continental Divide. The statue, designed and constructed by unemployed miners during the recession following the closure of the Anaconda copper mines, began as the small project of one man dedicated to his wife and evoled into a massive undertaking that held the depressed community together. Twenty years later, this short film relives the story of "Our Lady of the Rockies" and weaves together new hopes with grim historical realities in the uncertain aftermath of a resource extraction economy.