Directed by Jason Kohn (Love Means Zero, Manda Bala)
Produced by Amanda Branson Gill & Jared Goldman
**WORLD PREMIERE – 2022 Berlinale Speciale – Documentary Form**
**NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – Documentary Spotlight – 2022 SXSW**
SXSW SCREENING SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 12 at 2 pm – Alamo Lamar C
Sunday, March 13 at 9 am – ONLINE ONLY
Monday, March 14 at 7:15 pm – Alamo Lamar D
Thursday, March 17 at 3:45 pm – Violet Crown Cinema 1
Thursday, March 17 at 4:15 pm – Violet Crown Cinema 3
Traversing the globe, filmmaker Jason Kohn (Manda Bala, Love Means Zero) journeys across America, Botswana, China, and India on a high-stakes quest to investigate the deeply held myth that diamonds — the ultimate symbol of committed love — are indeed forever. In his travels, he befriends a besieged gemologist who is trying to warn the world that lab-grown diamonds are being mixed with mined, natural diamonds, but the industry he’s trying to save refuses to listen. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters, from disrupters to miners, mixers and middle-men, Nothing Lasts Forever delves to the heart of what is real and what is fake, calculating the high cost of exposing the truth inside an industry built on secrecy.
