11/10/2025
What a great interview on the new Sallie's Ashes film that was nominated as the Best Documentary Short at the Critics Choice Awards. It is premiering at the Fairhope Film Festival, but will be shown many places in Baldwin County and Mobile in the near future. Check our MoveTheAsh.com for more information. There will be a screening at the Fairhope Public Library on December 9th at 6:00 pm and at the Spanish Fort Community Center on January 29th. A schedule will soon be on the MovetheAsh website or write [email protected] and we will keep you updated.
Coal ash doesn’t belong in our rivers.
For years, we’ve called on Alabama Power to remove 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from an unlined pit at Plant Barry. It sits in groundwater, polluting the Mobile River and threatening the Delta.
One of the fiercest voices in this fight was Sarah “Sallie” Smith, a grandmother from Fairhope who was battling terminal cancer. She spent her final years leading the Coal Ash Action Group, a.k.a. “The Coal Ash Grannies, fighting to protect the water she loved for the generations who would come after her.
Her story is now being told in the documentary Sallie’s Ashes. We sat down with the filmmaker, Brennan Robideaux, to talk about Sallie’s legacy, the Delta, and what it means to protect your home.
"I hope that the film reminds us that sometimes it’s not the loudest voices, you know, but possibly those that we discount whose voice sometimes can carry the greatest weight.” This statement from Brennan reminds us that we all have a voice in defending our water and protecting our way of life.
Read the interview and learn how you can carry the fight forward.
https://mobilebaykeeper.org/blog/never-too-late-to-fight-talking-with-the-filmmaker-of-sallies-ashes/
