Dirty Energy Frustration

We are all disgusted by what we are seeing with the BP oil spill in the gulf.  Let's turn that "energy" (pun intended) into action.  Check out these fantastic films, all of which were part of our recent Reel Engagement (see below) residency.  These passionate filmmakers are now working together to strategize about how their films can work together to get more people engaged in this issue of energy reform and helping to stem climate change while we still can. Stay tuned for more info here!


Cape Wind

Cape Wind is a feature-length documentary about the high-stakes battle rocking Massachusetts as entrepreneur Jim Gordon fights to build 130 440 ft. tall wind turbines in the middle of Nantucket Sound.

Deep Down

Through a complex human story that cuts across environment, economics, public policy, and culture, the story of Beverly May and Terry Ratliff reveals the devastating impact of our energy consumption against an explosive backdrop: Appalachia's centuries-old struggle over the black rock that fuels our planet.

Dirty Business

Dirty Business reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. Guided by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell, the film examines what it means to remain dependent on a 19th century technology that is the largest single source of greenhouse gases. Can coal really be made clean? Can renewables and efficiency be produced on a scale large enough to replace coal?

Gas Land

When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area--the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States' natural gas drilling boom. What he uncovers is truly shocking--water that can be lit on fire right out of the sink, chronically ill residents of drilling areas from disparate locations in the US all with the same mysterious symptoms, huge pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation well blowouts and huge gas explosions consistently unregulated by state and federal regulatory agencies.

Split Estate

Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas 150 feet from your front door. Imagine another shocking truth: you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development. Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the US struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.

Sun Come Up

Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world's first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders - a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home. The film follows relocation leader, Ursula Rakova, and a group of young islanders led by Nick Hakata as they search for land in war-torn Bougainville, 50 miles across the open ocean.

When Two Worlds Collide

When Two World Collide is a feature length topical documentary filmed in Peru and Nicaragua, following the journey of an Amazonian leader, Alberto Pizango, falsely accused of murder by the Government and forced into exile for resisting the commercial exploitation of ancestral lands. Now in exile and facing 20 years in prison, this film chronicles the causes and effects of a conflicting clash of values and visions that will determine the fate of this region of the Amazon rain forest and the eco-system of our world.