"The Grid Unplugged" Doc on Failing Power Grids Premieres — SkimNews
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- The Grid Unplugged makes its world premiere Saturday at the 34th Hamptons International Film Festival (Oct. 2–12), with Deadline securing an exclusive clip from the documentary.
- Rick Cutter directs and Adam Samuel Goldman writes the film, which uses California's devastating wildfires as a case study for a larger global problem: aging power grids unable to keep up with growing demand.
- The documentary features interviews with leading energy experts, innovators, and policymakers focused on how to modernize infrastructure to meet rising strain.
- Meghan Walsh and Rick Cutter produce the documentary, with executive producers Lauren Avinoam, Kirpi Uimonen, and Ed Begley Jr.
- The film spotlights alarming risks of continued grid strain while offering potential solutions, framing it as a looming crisis the source says isn't discussed with sufficient urgency.
Why it matters: By launching at a major film festival during California's ongoing wildfire rebuild, the documentary pushes a systemic critique — that aging power infrastructure, not just climate, is driving catastrophic fire outcomes — into a mainstream cultural conversation the source says policymakers and media have so far downplayed.
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