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Gasland Part II screened at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC on October 7th to a packed house! Working Films' Reel Power initiative and Clean Water for NC coordinated this effort with the Gasland team to grow the anti-fracking movement…

Gasland Part II screened at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC on October 7th to a packed house! Working Films' Reel Power initiative and Clean Water for NC coordinated this effort with the Gasland team to grow the anti-fracking movement in the state at this critical time. Below is a photo blog of the event, community, groups, conversation and action.

 

[caption id="attachment_2824" align="aligncenter" width="467"] Clean Water for NC prepares volunteers before doors open[/caption]

  

Working Films - Reel Power info table

 

[caption id="attachment_2820" align="aligncenter" width="419"] Director Josh Fox with members of the Frack Free NC Alliance[/caption]  

[caption id="attachment_2832" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Attendees signing the petition to keep NC Frack-Free![/caption]   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="459"] The crowd enjoying the food trucks[/caption]

 

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="308"] Working Films' staff before screening[/caption]

 

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="507"] Bring Reel Power films to your community! reel-power.org[/caption]

  

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="299"] Standing ovation for filmmaker Josh Fox as he plays banjo along with the credits[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_2822" align="aligncenter" width="501"] Gasland Part II draws an energetic audience at the Carolina Theater of Durham!
Crowd says "I'm from NC, not from Gasland." Photo by Lee Ziesche, Gasland Part II[/caption]   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="493"] Q&A with moderator Anna Lee of Working Films, Josh Fox of Gasland Part II, and Hope Taylor of Clean Water for NC[/caption]    

Sneak Peak of Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, Sunday at 10:15 am in room 407 Q&A with filmmaker Leah Mahan, film subject/Gulf Coast organizer Derrick Evans and other contributors to BridgeTheGulfProject.org Come Hell or High Water:…

Sneak Peek of Citizen Koch on Sunday at 10:15 am, room 406 Q&A with Center for Media and Democracy / ALEC Exposed America - They're Coming for You Next! That’s the warning featured in the documentary Citizen Koch which comes from a Wisconsin…

Bidder 70 Saturday, 11:30am in room 406 Q&A with Peaceful Uprising Bidder 70 centers on an extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience demanding government and industry accountability. In 2008, University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher committed an…

Bidder 70 Saturday, 11:30am in room 406 Q&A with Peaceful Uprising Bidder 70 centers on an extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience demanding government and industry accountability. In 2008, University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher committed an act which would redefine patriotism in our time, igniting a spirit of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice. The film will be screened at Power Shift as part of the Reel Power film series today at 11:30 in room 406 with a Q&A with Peaceful Uprising advisory board member Lauren Wood. The film is being used on campuses as part of the students’ fossil fuel divestment campaigns, including Harvard where Tim DeChristopher is now attending divinity school. Although, last week, Harvard University President, Drew Faust, justified the university’s decision not to divest from the energy industry saying: "Harvard fights climate change through its research on it; Harvard needs fossil fuels to run its campus, so isn't divesting disingenuous?  Harvard should be an academic institution, not a political one." Tim’s response: "Drew Faust seeks a position of neutrality in a struggle where the powerful only ask that people like her remain neutral... She touts all the great research on climate change that is done at Harvard, but she ignores the fact that the fossil fuel industry actively works to suppress or distort every one of those efforts.” “The students’ call for divestment was a call for help by the young people who will reap the consequences of the climate crisis.” -Tim DeChristopher Bidder 70 has earned over 20 awards at film festivals and screened in communities churches, schools and colleges motivating groups and individuals to engage in peaceful direct action to secure a livable, sustainable future. Watch the film, discuss the issues and sign up to bring the film and filmmakers to your campus, community or place of worship. Bringing Tim DeChristopher's message of courage and commitment, Bidder 70 inspires individuals and groups to work together to create the change they want to see. Find more about Reel Power films at Reel-Power.org.

Gasland Part II, Saturday 11:30 am, room 407 Q&A with grassroots coordinator and film subject/local organizer Last night, Gasland Part II director Josh Fox told the Power Shift crowd, "There can be no democracy until we have freedom from fossil…

Reel Power brings you stories from the frontline of our energy future that will get your community talking and taking action. From a woman in Kentucky fighting for her homeplace against the ravages of mountaintop removal, to a Gulf Coast…

To jumpstart our efforts to support state-based work to address climate change, we’ve partnered with filmmaker Josh Fox, state level organizations, and local grassroots groups to host special screenings of Gasland 2 in Texas and North Carolina - two battlegrounds…

To jumpstart our efforts to support state-based work to address climate change, we’ve partnered with filmmaker Josh Fox, state level organizations, and local grassroots groups to host special screenings of Gasland 2 in Texas and North Carolina - two battlegrounds in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) debate.

[caption id="attachment_2754" align="aligncenter" width="428"] Image from @gaslandmovie on Twitter with tweet reading: Dear @barackobama & @governorperry we're from Fort Worth #NotFromGasland pic.twitter.com/cImwX84Csa[/caption] The tour started in Texas, where the film filled theaters in San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth. Fox moderated Q&A sessions that spotlighted subjects of the film and groups that have been organizing against fracking. “Many of the areas that face increasing drought are the same areas where fracking operations continue to use millions of gallons of water. Texas, the nation's third-largest agricultural producer and one of the states growing in population most rapidly, cannot continue to sustain such disastrous water losses,” said Alyssa Burgin, director of the Texas Drought Project and co-host of the recent Texas screenings. On Monday, October 7th the tour stops in North Carolina where it is co-hosted by Reel Power and Clean Water for NC, a science based environmental justice advocacy group, with the aim to grow the anti-fracking movement in NC at this critical time. There is currently a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the state that will last until 2015 while regulations are being developed. “Public awareness about fracking—its impacts on water, air, land, and vulnerable communities—is growing fast in North Carolina,” says Hope Taylor, exec. director of Clean Water for NC, “thanks to the power of the first Gasland movie and the research and outreach of many grassroots groups. We are learning so much from the experience of communities in Pennsylvania who were promised years of prosperity and are now experiencing the “bust”, as well as water contamination and community disruption, and from folks in Texas around drilling and compressor stations where poisoned air is causing grave health concerns ignored by regulators, or in Colorado, where recent flooding has broken pipelines, and inundated well pads and condensate tanks.” The public is invited to attend this free event, which will take place at 7:00 PM on October 7 at Durham’s Carolina Theatre at 309 W Morgan St. To reserve a free ticket, please visit https://gasland2nc.eventbrite.com/.    

Reel Power is excited to announce that our films will be part of the 2013 Power Shift conference. Power Shift is the world’s largest youth gathering and training for climate change solutions. This year more than ten thousand youth leaders…