Mining for Ruby
Directed by Zoe Quist for Film Reel Alaska Mentoring Experience (FRAME) 2013. Starring Misha Barton, Billy Zane, Daniel Ponickly, Antoinette Kalaj, Carrie Baker. Executive Producers Maya Salganek and William St. Pierre.
Produced as a part of the Film Reel Alaska Mentoring Experience (FRAME) film training program with UAF students on set under Keys as mentors. As an effort to grow and establish a competitive film industry for Alaska, FRAME developed to pair a public/private partnership between the University as a training facility and the film industry as producing partners.
Mining for Ruby is available through iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play.
Jack (Daniel Ponickly) is a widowed “end-of-the-roader” struggling with his continued depression as he falls for Ruby (Antoinette Kalaj), a passionate environmental engineering grad student who is embroiled in a poisonous waste controversy that threatens to shut down the biggest industry in her state.
Daniel Ponickly, Antoinette Kalaj, and Carrie Baker star in "Mining for Ruby."
Billy Zane stars as a mentor to a young environmental-engineering student (Antoinette Kalaj) in "Mining for Ruby"
Antoinette Kalaj, Carrie Baker, and Daniel Ponickly star in the indie drama "Mining for Ruby."
Antoinette Kalaj and Daniel Ponickly in "Mining for Ruby."
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Press
"Love isn't the only hazard in 'Mining for Ruby'"
"Watch ‘Titanic’ Bad Guy Get All Science-y and Stuff in ‘Mining for Ruby’ – Oh, Mischa Barton Co-Stars Too (Exclusive Video)"
"Film 'Mining for Ruby' shot in Fairbanks gave UAF residents, students hands-on experience"
Brian Truitt | USA TODAY
Travis Reilly | TheWrap
Gary Black | Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner
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