To Use a Mountain

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 99 min
  • Premiere: 2025. April 7.
  • Director: Casey Carter

Six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites.

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Camera

Casey Carter

Director of Photography

Crew

Casey Carter

Cinematography

Boris Bunnik (Severnaya)

Additional Music

Directing

Casey Carter

Director

Editing

Blair McClendon

Consulting Editor

Todd Chandler

Consulting Editor

Rosemary Rotondi

Archival Footage Research

Matt Riggieri

Colorist

Production

Jonna McKone

Producer

Brett Story

Executive Producer

Ryan Krivoshey

Executive Producer

Maida Lynn

Executive Producer

Heather A. Baldry

Co-Executive Producer

Sara Archambault

Consulting Producer

Farhad Mohammadi

Consulting Producer

Sound

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Original Music Composer

Casey Carter

Sound Designer

Jared Paolini

Sound Designer

Devin Boyle

Sound Recordist

Colleen Cassingham

Sound Recordist

Jared Paolini

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Lydia Cornett

Sound Recordist

Peter Halquist

Sound Recordist

Bradley Marshall

Sound Recordist