BrightMoment, NO Gas Pipeline & Food & Water Watch Presents FREE "Gasland" Film Screening
BrightMoment & NO Gas Pipeline are pleased to announce the screening of GASLAND here in Jersey City! Part of JC Fridays Free Events!
Join us for a screening of GASLAND, the documentary which exposes the dangerous drilling practice known as "Fracking" which is used to extract natural gas from shale. Fracking is polluting our Delaware River water supply with toxins – Fracking is happening in the Marcellus Shale (adjacent to New Jersey) and it endangers our water supply.
Location:
Jersey City Municipal City Hall
Council Chambers
2nd Floor
280 Grove Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Price:
$5 Suggested Donation
Free Admission
About the film
"The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."
Trailer
Awards
- Special Jury Prize – Sundance
- Best Documentary – Environmental Media Awards
- Special Jury Prize – Sarasota International Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize – Yale Environmental Film Festival
- Artistic Vision Award – Big Sky Film Festival
- Audience Award – Thin Line Film Festival
Praise
"...one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years." - Variety
"On the want-to-see- scale, GASLAND tops the list" - Washington Post
"Riveting" - LA Weekly
"GASLAND just might be the best film of the year." - The Huffington Post
"Over the past 8 days I was lucky enough to view 40 films...The most important film I saw was the documentary GASLAND...This examination of air quality and more specifically drinking water under attack from NYC to Ft. Worth was very eye opening." - USA TODAY
GASLAND is "well done. It holds people's attention. And it could block our industry." - Oil and Gas Journal President of the Natural Gas Supply Association
"VOLCANIC…With humor and inquisitiveness, Fox has delivered 2010's most alarming wake-up call." - Hammer To Nail
"When something emerges like Josh Fox's GASLAND, a work of art which also happens to educate quite effectively...this is why festivals, even the big ones, are capable of surprises, because wonderful things do seep through the cracks. Precisely because it was purely personal...and that it was as concerned with aesthetic matters as issues, GASLAND may also be some ideal of that cherished sub-genre in many festival circles, the environmental film, which tends to leave art behind for the topic it's addressing." - Cinemascope
