Producer: Debra Anderson; Writers: Joe Day, Avery Garrett, Jean Wendt; Camera: Debra Anderson, Dave Bowden, Doug Crawford; Editor: Debra Anderson; Original Music: Tim Anderson, Chris Jonas, Music Box, LLC, Michael Stearns, Molly Sturges, Ron Sunsinger, Joe West; Consultants: Mitchell Marti, Tara Meixsell; Narrator: Ali MacGraw;

Notes: Produced in 2007-2008. This was one of only 8 projects selected (300+ submitted) for the Good Pitch at the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, June 16, 2009, DocuWeeks 2009 (New York/Los Angeles). Synopsis: Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health. Zeroing in on Garfield County, Colorado, and the San Juan Basin, this clarion call for accountability examines the growing environmental and social costs to an area now referred to as a “National Sacrifice Zone.”