…and Hope Amid the Ashes.
"National Geographic and Imagine Documentaries have unveiled the trailer for Ron Howard‘s moving documentary Rebuilding Paradise, which will be released in select theaters and on VOD on July 31 following a well-reviewed premiere at Sundance earlier this year. For every ticket sold, $1 USD will go to charities supporting the town of Paradise, California, whose residents saw their community ravaged by disaster, forcing them to come together to recover what was lost.
On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, a devastating firestorm engulfed the picturesque city of Paradise, California. By the time the fire was extinguished, it had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 residents, and destroyed 95% of local structures. It was the deadliest U.S. fire in 100 years — and the worst ever in California's history.
As residents faced the damage to their lives, to their homes and to more than 150,000 acres in and around their 141-year-old town, they did something amazing: They worked together to heal. The community members went on to forge a bond stronger than what they had before the catastrophe, even as their hope and spirit were challenged by continued adversity such as relocations, financial crises, government hurdles, water poisoning, grief and PTSD…."
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