When Spanish conquistadores arrived in the New World, they found the descendants of the Maya living like savages among the ruins of once great cities. The immense society that had built temples, pyramids, and cosmological observatories had vanished.
Unlike the children of the Maya, we are able to summon...
(1) Comments | Posted September 16, 2009 | 5:19 PM
When we set out from San Francisco last week, there were many questions. We were full of excitement, looking at that ribbon of American highway...
(0) Comments | Posted January 15, 2009 | 2:47 PM
Special Go Green Expo Fuel Screening with Peter Fonda and Mariel Hemmingway
Friday, January 23 at the Go Green Expo, Los Angeles Convention Center
Screening begins at 5:00PM
After Panel with Peter Fonda and Mariel Hemmingway at 7:00PM
Oscar contender Fuel is an insightful portrait of America's addiction to oil...
(1) Comments | Posted December 23, 2008 | 11:28 AM
Big 3 Buyout - Eat your heart out, America, our government is back in control. How many biodiesels could we put on the road with the $15-30 billion the Big 3 Auto Monsters are going to receive? Let's tell Congress how many! We need statistics: how much do average algae-diesel/bio-diesel...
(0) Comments | Posted December 23, 2008 | 11:26 AM
"Dynamic and persuasive. It's a must-see, and not just for environmentalists."
- Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
"Offers hope and vision for a future without oil"
- Rachel Purcell, The Source Weekly
"Watch the film, learn from it, and make it happen."
- Damian Vaca, MTV Movies
Fuel...
(0) Comments | Posted December 16, 2008 | 3:52 PM
Fuel is playing in San Antonio, TX, Seattle & Yelm WA and Bend, OR.
Fuel Review -- Bend Source Weekly
Written by Rachel Purcell -- the Source Weekly
Wednesday, 03 December 2008
Winner of the Sundance Audience Choice Award and now being considered for an Academy Award nomination, Fuel is...
(1) Comments | Posted December 3, 2008 | 1:20 PM
Fuel is the opening film at the Santa Fe Film Festival on Wed Dec. 3rd at 7pm followed by a Q&A with Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell.
Here's a recap of the Fuel Amsterdam adventure: We were all curious to see how Fuel would play to a continental European audience,...
(0) Comments | Posted December 2, 2008 | 3:55 PM
On November 21 Josh Rosenblatt made a mistake. The moonlighting movie critic for Austin's weekly "hip" newspaper decided to write about Fuel as if he had just cashed a big fat check from a major oil company and was now doing the dirty work...
(0) Comments | Posted November 26, 2008 | 12:13 PM
Fuel opened in Seattle and Austin this weekend to sold out audiences on Friday and Saturday nights. In Seattle, hundreds of people waited in the rain lined up around the block to get a seat for FUEL's opening night.
In Austin, happy crowds, including many from the Sierra Club and...
(0) Comments | Posted November 20, 2008 | 12:10 PM
The Portland Mercury called Fuel "astounding."
Comment from last night:
"It is our civic responsibility to see this film and spread the word!!"
Submitted by Chris on Sat, 11/15/2008 - 1:10pm
"It is our civic responsibility to see this film and spread the word!! Fuel will inspire and motivate...
(0) Comments | Posted November 19, 2008 | 5:20 PM
Today was a big day for the Fuel film. We found out that the movie played so well in Portland that it is being held over for a week -- which means if you're in Portland and you missed Fuel, there's still time to see it in the theater! In...
(0) Comments | Posted November 19, 2008 | 5:16 PM
Announced Today!
Here is the complete list of short-listed films below:
At the Death House Door
The Betrayal" (Nerakhoon)
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
Encounters at the End of the World
Fuel
The Garden
Glass: A Portrait...
(2) Comments | Posted October 1, 2008 | 2:30 PM
United States financial institutions are crumbling. U.S. troops are being reassigned to our streets to do crowd control(For what?).
Anyone looking at the news feeds this morning might think we are living inside a dark Tim Burton parallel universe movie.
Whatever is going on, one thing is for sure...
(0) Comments | Posted September 30, 2008 | 5:06 PM
"Recently, a scandal broke over illicit activities in the division of the Department of the Interior responsible for, among other things, royalties to oil companies. Executives were exchanging sexual favors, drugs and lavish gifts in what officials say was 'a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity.' Turns out that our...
(1) Comments | Posted July 21, 2008 | 6:39 PM
At 35,000 feet, going 400 miles per hour, things can get cold. Really cold. For years skeptics argued that a biofuel could never withstand the subzero temperatures and requirements of modern aviation. In February, however, Sir Richard Branson flew his...
(5) Comments | Posted July 6, 2008 | 10:55 AM
The following blog is based on my upcoming documentary film, Fields of Fuel, (www.fieldsoffuel.com) which premieres in theaters this September.
For many families in Mexico, the poverty line is an all too familiar tightrope. It's easy to fall off.
Both because of its low cost and regional...
(23) Comments | Posted June 20, 2008 | 1:47 PM
Gas prices have doubled. High food prices have pushed over a hundred million people into starvation. It's snowing in the northwest United States -- in the middle of summer. And a United States president, known for his allegiance to the dark world of oil and for his suspect behavior around...
(3) Comments | Posted April 22, 2011 | 5:00 PM