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An Inconvenient Truth showed us the problems; FUEL provides us with the solutions

Mount St. Mary's College in partnership with Women in Film is proud to present
FUEL


You are invited to join us for a free screening of the
award-winning documentary film, FUEL.
 
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
●Screening at 6:45 PM
Panel discussion to follow with filmmaker Josh Tickell
 
Where: MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE
William H. Hannon Theater
12001 Chalon Road
Los Angeles, CA 90049
 
RSVP to Marlene Simon @ (310) 954-4135 or msimon@msmc.la.edu
 
STUDENTS!  TOUR THE BIG GREEN BUS
 
Synopsis: Sundance award-winning green documentary film, which details solutions to the current economic crisis through green energy, conservation, green collar jobs and new solutions.   www.thefuelfilm.com

CHANGE YOUR FUEL ●CHANGE THE WORLD


Directed by lifelong environmentalist Josh Tickell, and featuring intimate interviews with -- to list a few -- Van Jones, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sheryl Crow & Sir. Richard Branson -- FUEL  has an enormous impact on audiences, inspiring activism for a clean-energy economy. FUEL profiles a host of new green solutions - from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America's complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it's imperative.

FUEL is aligned with President Obama's "New Green Deal" and, along with the help of his administration, a groundswell of support, and organizations such as yours - has the ability to help "repower America". 

Winner - 2008 Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award for Best Documentary ● Winner - 2008 Sedona Film Festival - Best Documentary Jury Award ● Nominated - 2009 - Writer's Guild of America - Best Documentary Screenplay ● 2008 Academy Award "Short-list" - Best Documentary
 
・       The movie will open to the public in NY at AMC Loews Village 7, In March 13th 2009
・       And Feb 13th in Los Angeles both at the Broadway Cinema on the 3rd Street Promenade and at the Sunset 5 in Hollywood.

FUEL is an insightful portrait of America's addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry-from Rockefeller's strategy to halt Ford's first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation - and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America" -from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America's complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it's imperative.

"FUEL achieves something few activist or environmental documentaries have done, which is to win you over. The audience at the opening was the choir, and although it was immensely popular and received a resounding ovation from them, it will play in Alabama and North Dakota too. It is not a polemic but a story, a story based on strong beliefs. Without losing its conviction, it allowed each of us, expert or newbie, to find our own way with the material, united all along by the charm of the narrator and director, Joshua Tickell.  It is a masterful film." - Paul Hawken
 


 

 

Location Name:  Mount Saint Mary's College ~ William H. Hannon Theater

Address: 12001 Chalon Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049