Gasland II // German Premiere and Q&A with director Josh Fox

Organized By Radialsystem V

Location: Radialsystem V

Holzmarktstraße 33,Berlin (52.510335, 13.428978)

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Radialsystem is inviting to a special evening with film maker Josh Fox German Premiere of GASLAND 2 Josh Fox will be there to introduce the film and for a Q&A after. Everything that you wanted to know about fracking but never dared to ask for. FREE ENTRY! Josh Fox is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of the International WOW Company. Josh has written, directed and produced three feature films, several short films and over twenty-five full- length works for the stage which have premiered in New York, Asia and Europe. GASLAND is a 2010 documentary written and directed by Josh Fox. Premiered at the Sundance film festival 2010, the film focuses on communities in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling and, specifically, a method of horizontal drilling into shale formations known as slickwater fracking. GASLAND was awarded the 2010 Special Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for best documentary, as well as for four Emmys including best documentary, best writing and best cinematography, and awarded the Emmy for best directing. Furthermore the film was nominated for best Documentary Screenplay by the WGA, and also awarded the Environmental Media Association Award for best documentary. As a result of Josh's activism and campaigning on the issue of gas drilling he was awarded the 2010 Lennon Ono Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono. "In the explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide)." (http://www.gaslandthemovie.com) Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dzx7UXzK_z4