
Fighting Trump
On the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a handful of residents refuse to sell their homes to make way for Donald Trump's golf resort, and director James Trosh sits down with three of them to hear why. David Milne describes life next to the construction site, Susie Munro talks about the pressure put on residents to leave, and Michael Forbes, whose farm became a flashpoint in the dispute, gives his account of dealing with the development directly. Trosh presents the film himself, moving from one interview to the next with no narrator standing between the residents and the camera. There is no aerial footage of the finished course here and no appearance from Trump himself, just three neighbors describing what it is like to hold onto a piece of land that a billionaire wants. Filmed in 2011, while the estate was still being built out, the film works as a record of local resistance to a development that made international headlines mostly for its developer's name.