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GasLand
Director: Josh Fox
Duration: 104 mins
Rating: PG - Mild themes and coarse language
Release Date: 18 November, 2010
Duration: 104 mins
Rating: PG - Mild themes and coarse language
Release Date: 18 November, 2010
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Part vérité travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part showdown, GASLAND is a compelling and emotional first-person story of discovery and, ultimately, empowerment.
In September 2006, theatre director and part-time banjo player Josh Fox received an unexpected letter in the mail: a natural gas company offering him $100 000 for permission to explore his family’s upstate New York property, in the lush Delaware River Basin area.
Rather than join many of his neighbours in signing on the dotted line, Josh’s curiosity saw him asking questions. He soon discovered that in the race for ‘cleaner’, greener & more efficient energy sources, the largest natural gas drilling boom in history is sweeping the globe, and in the US, the Halliburton-led drilling technology of hydraulic fracturing (or ‘fracking’) has unlocked a "Saudi Arabia of natural gas".
So Josh picked up his camcorder, and set out on a journey across America’s heartland. His personal concerns quickly uncover global ones, as the citizens of ‘GasLand’ testify to what’s been happening around them. It becomes evident that the multi-million dollar business of fracking has contaminated the water supply, the corporate giants are in cover-up mode, and the PR-spun government has not only turned a blind eye, it has regulated itself out of the picture…
Rough-hewn yet poetic, the film is a desperate plea for scrutiny of a powerful industry that has now turned its eyes on a new, massive and largely unexplored territory: Australia.
GASLAND was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and voted the best competition film of any section by indieWIRE’s Sundance Critics Poll.
Now Showing at Palace Barracks, Palace Cinema Como, Palace Norton Street, Palace Verona
"Beautiful cinema - a gem. Rough-hewn and poetic. Incredibly inspiring"
Robert Koehler, VARIETY
”Films entertain, nudge our thoughts, slam our feelings, outrage us, yet films rarely stampede us into doing something. Gasland is a rare film… Stripped to its essence, this extraordinary documentary tells a very old story, the story about abuse of power, the powerful screwing the non-powerful and money buying favor that costs the poor."
Stewart Nusbaumer, THE HUFFINGTON POST
“Draws you in immediately with an intimacy and quiet narrative by Fox's citizen journalism, who slowly but surely uncovers a path of destruction that is continuing as I type, as you read this, and until brave and honest politicians can remedy with new laws that undo the great harm…”
April McIntyre, MONSTERS & CRITICS
"Do NOT miss this documentary”
Alice Tynan, THE PLOT THICKENS
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