Indiepix has sent word that they’ve set up a theatrical release for Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa, a Gotham-nominated doc about The Mesa, a kind of post-apocalyptic, semi-communal community of veterans, runaways and assorted dropouts, who head deep in the desert to live “without boundaries.” Indiepix says they will open the film nationwide (although there’s no indication as to how wide), before it premieres on the Sundance Channel as part of their environmental advocacy programming block, The Green.

I saw the film at the Denver Film Festival and liked it a lot, but I’m curious as to how much success indiePix/Sundance will have selling this as a “Green” film. The film may depict an extreme green lifestyle (there is no electricity, little water and no formal commerce in the area, and many members of the community grow their own crops and rely on generators and/or solar panels for power), but I don’t think it necessarily makes that lifestyle seem attractive. Plus, it’s at least as much about post traumatic stress disorder, poverty, and anti-utopia as it is about non-industrialized agriculture and solar energy.

Anyway, it’s good stuff. See the trailer above.