EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the edge-of-your-seat documentary thriller Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, a “gripping account of the deadliest avalanche in U.S.
ski resort history.”Greenwich plans to release the documentary — winner of the Audience Award at Telluride’s Moutainfilm festival – in theaters in New York, San Francisco and Northern California on September 23, expanding to additional markets thereafter.
A 45-day exclusive theatrical window will be followed by a release on TVOD/EST (transactional video on demand/electronic sell-through) and DVD on November 8.Jared Drake and Steven Siig directed the film, which takes viewers back to the catastrophic events of March and April 1982 near Lake Tahoe, California.
A massive storm had dumped huge quantities of snow onto the area beginning in late March. Then, on the afternoon of March 31, tragedy struck.“[W]ithout warning, millions of pounds of snow would hurtle down the side of the mountain engulfing the resort’s base area and burying the parking lot,” according to a release about the film. “The sheer scale of the wreckage was staggering but for the [ski] patrol team every passing second was precious, as it was soon determined that eight people were buried in the slide – co-workers, friends, family.”A desperate search began for possible survivors.
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