Maui Film Festival - FirstLight: Academy Screenings on Maui

FIRSTLIGHT FILM DESCRIPTIONS

Fuel
Saturday, January 3 at 5:00pm

Director: Josh Tickell
Cast: Barbara Boxer, Sir Richard Branson, Sheryl Crow, Larry David, Laurie David, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson.

Eleven Standing Ovations are testimony to the energy and enthusiasm for this 2008 Best Documentary Audience Award Winner at the Sundance Film Festival.  Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues will be the catalyst for heated debates and positive change for many years to come. 2008 Sundance award-winning film Fuel exposes shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity and non-food-based biofuels. Josh Tickell and his Veggie Van take us on the road as we discover the pros and cons of biofuels, how America’s addiction to oil is destroying the U.S. economy and how green energy can save us, but only if we act now.  This is a film about solutions! (NR/112 min.)

  • Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award, Best Documentary

"Hopeful and humorous, Fields of Fuel is a highly entertaining film. It is also a case study supporting Marshall McLuhan's famous observation that "the medium is the message”, tapping into the power film holds in today's culture to change the world."
Moving Pictures, RaeAnne Marsh



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