GASLAND free screenings
August 26th 2010 06:02
Beginning August 27th in Pittsburgh, Rooftop Films, The Fledgling Fund, and International WOW Company will present a special six city tour of Josh Fox’s powerful new documentary Gasland, which exposes the horrific effects of a new type of natural gas drilling called hydraulic fracturing. The tour will bring screenings of the film to some of the areas most seriously affected by this type of drilling, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and Callicoon, Syracuse, and New York City in New York. The tour is part of Rooftop's ongoing expansion into new cities.
New Yorkers, join us on September 11th for our New York City show and spread the word to friends in Pennsylvania and Upstate New York.
Tour Details:
Friday, August 27th
Pittsburgh, PA
Venue: Frick Park, Beechwood Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
6:30 PM: Panel Discussion with Local Organizations and Activists
7:30 PM: Live Music
8:15 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox, Local Organizations, and Activists
Admission: No Charge
Friday, September 3rd
Philadelphia, PA
Venue: At the Piazza at Schmidt’s, North Second Street and Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19123
7:30 PM: Live Music
8:30 PM: Film Begins
10:00 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
10:30 PM: After Party
Admission: No Charge
Sunday, September 5th
Callicoon, NY
Venue: Delaware Youth Center, 8 Creamery Road, Callicoon, NY 12723
Directions at: Really Long Link
6:00 PM: Performances and speeches by local artists and activists
7:30 PM: Live Music
8:30 PM: Film Begins
10:00 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
Admission: No Charge
Tuesday, September 7th
Harrisburg, PA
Venue: Reservoir Park - Levitt Pavilion, 100 Concert Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17103
7:00 PM: Live Music
8:00 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
Tickets: No Charge
Thursday, September 9th (tentative)
Syracuse, NY
Venue: The Amphitheater at Thornden Park, Syracuse, New York 13210
7:00 PM: Live Music
7:30 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
Tickets: No Charge
Saturday, September 11th
New York, NY
Venue: On the pier along the East River at Solar One, 2420 FDR Drive, Service Road East at 23rd Street and the East River
6:30 PM: Live Music
7:30 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
10:00 PM: After Party
READ MORE | BUY TICKETS | DIRECTIONS
The Film: GASLAND
(Josh Fox | 24 States Across America | 1:47:00 min.)
Gasland tells the story of what happened when a natural gas mining company offered Josh Fox and his upstate New York neighbors $100,000 each for the right to drill for gas on their land, and Fox thought he'd better examine what was going on before he signed away his property. This led him on a cross-country odyssey that uncovered a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. The result is an eye-opening documentary that is part vérité travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, and part showdown.
Fox serves as the film’s emotional divining rod, wandering and wavering throughout the US, picking up on tragic tales of people, animals and places contaminated beyond repair, pointing always toward the hazardous link between "clean" natural gas and dangerously polluted water. Explaining the problem, Fox says, "Let me start at the beginning: this is Dick Cheney." In 2005, Cheney's secretive Energy Commission designed a bill that was able to overturn parts of various decades-old environmental-protection legislation, allowing for a relatively new process of gas drilling, invented by Halliburton. Commonly referred to as "fracking," in this new process, the mining companies inject a cornucopia of toxic chemicals deep into the ground and explode the rock beds. Companies across 38 states are doing this with almost no oversight or regulations, often operating within feet of homes, schools, streams, wells and aquifers. An EPA spokesmen describes the legislation as "Orwellian" and "Un-American."
As Fox chases the companies' operations across the country, he encounters cats and horses losing their hair in clumps, men and women with sudden painful illnesses, and houses where you can literally light the tap water on fire. Cowboys and roughnecks in the far west and deep south--certainly not your granola-eating tree-huggers--decry the situation with pathos, charm and a bit of mordant humor. The gas companies deny, deny, deny.
Fox is able to explain the process and the repercussions with an easy-going verve and a dire sense of urgency. With a swelling populist love for America, Fox gets the viewer to understand the problem and care deeply. Gasland begins as a personal query about Fox's own land, morphs into a documentary as he encounters people with stories to tell, and ends as activist rallying cry exposing one of America's most dangerous environmental secrets.
Rooftop Films, The Fledgling Fund, and International WOW Company are proud to help expose these horrifying stories--amazingly wide-spread and consistent wherever natural gas is drilled--in the hopes that this won't be a secret for long.
www.rooftopfilms.com
New Yorkers, join us on September 11th for our New York City show and spread the word to friends in Pennsylvania and Upstate New York.
Friday, August 27th
Pittsburgh, PA
Venue: Frick Park, Beechwood Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
6:30 PM: Panel Discussion with Local Organizations and Activists
7:30 PM: Live Music
8:15 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox, Local Organizations, and Activists
Admission: No Charge
Friday, September 3rd
Philadelphia, PA
Venue: At the Piazza at Schmidt’s, North Second Street and Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19123
7:30 PM: Live Music
8:30 PM: Film Begins
10:00 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
10:30 PM: After Party
Admission: No Charge
Sunday, September 5th
Callicoon, NY
Directions at: Really Long Link
6:00 PM: Performances and speeches by local artists and activists
7:30 PM: Live Music
8:30 PM: Film Begins
10:00 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
Admission: No Charge
Tuesday, September 7th
Harrisburg, PA
Venue: Reservoir Park - Levitt Pavilion, 100 Concert Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17103
7:00 PM: Live Music
8:00 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
Tickets: No Charge
Thursday, September 9th (tentative)
Syracuse, NY
Venue: The Amphitheater at Thornden Park, Syracuse, New York 13210
7:00 PM: Live Music
7:30 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
Tickets: No Charge
Saturday, September 11th
New York, NY
Venue: On the pier along the East River at Solar One, 2420 FDR Drive, Service Road East at 23rd Street and the East River
6:30 PM: Live Music
7:30 PM: Film Begins
9:30 PM: Q&A with Director Josh Fox and Local Activists
10:00 PM: After Party
READ MORE | BUY TICKETS | DIRECTIONS
The Film: GASLAND
(Josh Fox | 24 States Across America | 1:47:00 min.)
Gasland tells the story of what happened when a natural gas mining company offered Josh Fox and his upstate New York neighbors $100,000 each for the right to drill for gas on their land, and Fox thought he'd better examine what was going on before he signed away his property. This led him on a cross-country odyssey that uncovered a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. The result is an eye-opening documentary that is part vérité travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, and part showdown.
Fox serves as the film’s emotional divining rod, wandering and wavering throughout the US, picking up on tragic tales of people, animals and places contaminated beyond repair, pointing always toward the hazardous link between "clean" natural gas and dangerously polluted water. Explaining the problem, Fox says, "Let me start at the beginning: this is Dick Cheney." In 2005, Cheney's secretive Energy Commission designed a bill that was able to overturn parts of various decades-old environmental-protection legislation, allowing for a relatively new process of gas drilling, invented by Halliburton. Commonly referred to as "fracking," in this new process, the mining companies inject a cornucopia of toxic chemicals deep into the ground and explode the rock beds. Companies across 38 states are doing this with almost no oversight or regulations, often operating within feet of homes, schools, streams, wells and aquifers. An EPA spokesmen describes the legislation as "Orwellian" and "Un-American."
As Fox chases the companies' operations across the country, he encounters cats and horses losing their hair in clumps, men and women with sudden painful illnesses, and houses where you can literally light the tap water on fire. Cowboys and roughnecks in the far west and deep south--certainly not your granola-eating tree-huggers--decry the situation with pathos, charm and a bit of mordant humor. The gas companies deny, deny, deny.
Fox is able to explain the process and the repercussions with an easy-going verve and a dire sense of urgency. With a swelling populist love for America, Fox gets the viewer to understand the problem and care deeply. Gasland begins as a personal query about Fox's own land, morphs into a documentary as he encounters people with stories to tell, and ends as activist rallying cry exposing one of America's most dangerous environmental secrets.
Rooftop Films, The Fledgling Fund, and International WOW Company are proud to help expose these horrifying stories--amazingly wide-spread and consistent wherever natural gas is drilled--in the hopes that this won't be a secret for long.
www.rooftopfilms.com
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