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Filmmaker Josh Fox is in town and will be visiting our own weird, quasi-public venue — The Piazza at Schmidts — for a screening by Rooftop Films and the Philly Underground Film Festival of Fox's documentary, Gasland.
The film is a disturbing — but also, lest you be on the fence, surprisingly entertaining — portrait of the natural gas industry and the method of gas extraction known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." It's already a major, major presence in Pennsylvania and whose environmental consequences deserve, at the very least, a level of scrutiny that has been absent so far.
This paper has covered the subject, most recently under our little monikers of "Frack Track" and "Marcellus Shale," Click on the blue for recent articles.
In the meantime, here's a snippet of my recent interview with Fox, in which he describes the strange phenomenon of people coming from around the state to his screenings ... with jugs of contaminated water!
If you like this teaser, just wait: the full interview will be available next week in ... The resurrection of our long-dead podcast!
Here are show details:
Show Details:
Friday, September 3, 2010
Venue: At the Piazza at Schmidts
Address: North Second Street and Germantown Avenue
Directions at: http://www.atthepiazza.com/find-the-piazza.html
Rain: This event will be held rain or shine.
7:30 PM: Doors Open
8:00 PM: Live Music
8:30 PM: Film Begins
10:30 PM: After Party
This is a free show. For more information, please visit: http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/52-gasland
There are certain things you can no longer afford to ignore. In the movie Gasland, Josh Fox awakens you to more than a few of these â and hopes you'll spread the word to everyone you know. http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/09/gasland-light-my-water-on-fire%E2%80%A6/
[...] in Damascus, Pa. on zoning regulations — as well as the recent screening in Philadelphia of the "controversial Gasland movie," a documentary by filmmaker Josh Fox on the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, the process used to [...]
While everybody thrills at the confirmed list of what next Philadelphia International Film Festival will bring to the screen Oct. 15 to 19, nobodyâs asked the most important thing — which celebs are coming. The Philadelphia Film Society's J. Andrew Greenblatt gave me the skippy so far. "F. Gary Gray will bring Law Abiding Citizen along with special guests," says Greenblatt (teasing Jamie Foxx and/or Gerard Butler?), and Lee Daniels will bring Precious [star Gabourey Sidibe]." Maybe weâll have more surprises soon.
If you're only reading the Clog, you're missing out on info on the upcoming Philadelphia Film Festival. No worries, we have the skinny on our arts blog Critical Mass:
The Philadelphia Film Festival announced it will open with the locally-shot and set Law Abiding Citizen and close with Precious: Based on the Novel âPushâ by Sapphire, by West Phillyâs Lee Daniels.
This year marks the festâs 18 1/2 birthday ⦠wait, what? And a half? Usually the Film Fest takes place in the spring but when the Philadelphia Film Society split last year, TLA/Cinema Alliance's Ray Murray kept the season and renamed the venture CineFest, while the Film Society moved to October and retained the name. The fest takes place Thu., Oct. 15-Mon., Oct. 19 and features 28 films from 14 different countries.
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