Best Documentary Feature & Best Director Award - RiverRun International Film Festival

Best Documentary Feature, Providence Latin American Film Festival

MacArthur Award for Documentary Filmmaking

Tribeca Film Institute's Gucci award

Official Selection, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Official Selection, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Official Selection, San Francisco International Film Festival

Official Selection, Margaret Mead Film Festival

Official Selection, Camden Film Festival

Official Selection, Maryland Film Festival

Official Selection, Havana Film Festival

Official Selection, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

"Director Mike Plunkett makes his feature directorial debut with one of the year’s truly genuine surprises."

- Criterioncast

"Plunkett’s documentary manages to look at the stark impact of industrialization on a remote area through an often poetic lens."

- The Huffington Post

"Salero is both elegy and reportage, a combination of sublime visual grandeur and prosaic fact-filled journalism. All the while awestruck by sumptuous images of breathtaking landscapes..."

- Hammer to Nail