Hollywood link-up for Angus film-maker

Montrose Pictures are teaming up with one of Hollywood’s key creative forces for its upcoming documentary on the Flint water crisis.

Film-maker Anthony Baxter confirmed the link-up with Imaginary Forces which has done work on Mad men, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and the Marvel superhero film franchises, and has just been nominated for three Emmys for their production of Sonic Sea.

The You’ ve Been Trumped director made the announcement yesterday in New York during a special screening of 20 minutes of footage less than 200 miles from Flint.

With Flint, the Angus director was alerted by local residents to the water crisis unfolding in the small Michigan town months before the story became headline news.

David-and-Goliath struggles are nothing new to Mr Baxter, who first brought to the world’s attention the plight of residents in Aberdeenshire battling Donald Trump in the critically acclaimed 2012 film.

Mr Baxter said: “We thought it important to tell this story from the eyes of the residents, not the politicians and celebrities who come and go in Flint on a regular basis. It’s a riveting story about the breakdown of trust, and one that has huge resonance and relevance in today’s America.”

Flint will be released at cinemas and broadcast on TV in 2018. Imaginary Forces co-founder Chip Houghton said the story “represents both the best and worst of who we are as a nation”.

Anthony Baxter has joined with Imaginary Forces.