Palace Cinemas is delighted to invite you and your friends to meet writer/director JOSH FOX at the special Q&A screening of his award-winning new film GASLAND: 6.30pm Fri 12 Nov at Norton Street.

Mr Fox will participate in a live Q&A after the screening - moderated by Showtime's Neil Schofield.

GASLAND premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and has since become one of the most talked about films of the year. Among many appearances, Josh Fox has featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and PBS Frontline – and has spoken at US State and Federal Congress. He joins us in Australia direct from being awarded the 2010 John Lennon Peace Prize, and collecting the Best Documentary Award at the ‘Green Oscars’ – the Environment Media Awards on October 16.

Part vérité travelogue, part ecological expose, part showdown, GASLAND is a first-person story of discovery and empowerment that began in September 2006 when Mr. Fox received a letter from a natural gas company, offering him $100 000 for permission to explore his upstate New York property. His curiosity led him to discover that in the race for ‘cleaner’, greener & more efficient energy sources, the largest natural gas drilling boom in history has resulted in an environmental disaster of shocking proportions, and the PR-spun US government has not only turned a blind eye, it has regulated itself out of the picture.

You may have seen The Sydney Morning Herald’s recent in-depth coverage of the expanding Australian Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry – and worrying news stories linking cases of local water contamination to natural gas drilling – GASLAND is a desperate plea for scrutiny of this powerful industry before it’s too late.

We hope you can join us for what promise to be two fascinating (and potentially explosive!) events. Click here to see the official trailer.