From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sightis the newsroom’s most ambitious film project yet.

The feature-length documentary follows Xia as she unravels a haunting tip and discovers that as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean decades ago, just off the coast of Los Angeles.

The film, which Xia directed and produced with Los Angeles-based filmmaker Daniel Straub, world premiered at DOC NYC and continued its festival run at SLAMDANCE, where it was selected as the festival’s opening night film, and at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where it sold out every screening and received the Audience Choice Award.

Out of Plain Sight also won the audience award at the Berkshire International Film Festival, as well as the Jackson Wild Media Award for best investigative film. Two prominent environmental film festivals also recently awarded the film with their highest honors: The Shared Earth Foundation Award at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival and the Best Feature Film Award at the International Wildlife Film Festival, where the jury cited the film as “a gripping and urgent exposé that brings long-buried environmental crimes to the surface with cinematic precision and investigative depth.”

To follow the film’s most up-to-date festival screenings and announcements, please see the film’s official website and the film’s Instagram page.