Uncovering The Truth After A Deadly Mining Accident

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 15, 2015

Sara Colangelo talks about the new film she wrote and directed, Little Accidents, about a small town devastated by a fatal mining accident. Diane finds herself drifting away from her husband, a mining company executive whose role in the accident has made her family the prime target for the town’s anger, when her son goes missing. She forms a dangerous bond with the sole survivor of the disaster that threatens to tear the family apart. The film opens January 16 at Cinema Village.

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