Special screening of Oscar® contending doc FUEL in Olympia

Happy New Year, Concerned Citizens!

On Saturday, January 10th, 2009, I will be hosting a special screening of FUEL — which is on the Oscars® short list for Best Documentary — in Olympia. The event is not free, but tickets remain available. The movie is worth the price of admission and when you add the exclusive, post-show panel discussion, you’d be mad not to attend if you’re in the area.

I had the chance to interview FUEL‘s filmmaker Josh Tickell recently. Check it in thee January issue of Conscious Choice Magazine. While you’re at it, listen to The Warren Report’s FREE podcast recorded after The Warren Report’s Seattle screening of FUEL. It can be downloaded now via iTunes or via Libsyn.

And now, an official invitation from FUEL‘s distributor, Intention Media…

FUEL is a vitally important film- an award winning documentary that is gaining national interest.

If AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH showed us the problems, FUEL provides us with the solutions. FUEL is a film about national security and sustainability that is having an enormous impact on audiences, inspiring environmental activism for a renewable energy economy. FUEL offers viable, practical solutions that lead us from here to there. FUEL is now leading the environmental charge, and comes at a time when every one of us feels the imperative to rebuild our economy and when our newly elected administration is at hand with the political will to make the true shift to green -deciding where to focus its priorities and resources at what President Elect Obama believes to be the biggest economic recovery plan since ‘The New Deal’.

Directed by environmentalist Josh Tickell, and featuring.. to list a few – Ken Caldeira, Van Jones, Robert Kennedy, FUEL has now been short-listed for an Academy Award nomination in the Documentary Feature category and is set to open in New York and Los Angeles in February of 2009. We are on the verge of creating a groundswell of support for a film that can galvanize the population and send a message to our leaders that it’s time for a change.

The success of FUEL will certainly help to guide the economic recovery towards real sustainable businesses rather than green-washed technologies such as “clean-coal” or Fords new 30 MPG dinosaur. In addition THiNK GREEN has been invited by Secretary General of the United Nations Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO), to host a screening of FUEL at the United Nations, UN headquarters Building in New York City with leading delegates.

We have received an official stamp of approval from Greenpeace, The Dove seal and The EMA Green Seal who currently view this film as one that their constituencies will find of national importance.

With your help, FUEL will help focus the nation, but it won’t happen unless people see the film.

As President Elect Obama says: “This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were”. NOW is our opportunity for our voices to be heard and here is how you can be a part of this incredible movement that is about to begin – by making this film a resounding success!

We are thrilled to have Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report along with Congressman Jay Inslee (schedule dependant) moderating our distinguished panelists:

Rhys Roth – Co-Founder, Climate Solutions
Andy Cochrane – Power Trip Energy Corp
Rachel Jamison – Dept Ecology Green Building Lead

We are counting on your support for full public representation and we will be inviting questions from the audience during this discussion. So please, get involved – Change Starts With YOU! Put it on your calendars and JOIN US! Help spread the word about FUEL, our nation needs it!!

Here is how YOU can help!
We need help getting the word out, to create a movement around this vital film that will support its openings around the country and a tour for The Big Green Energy Bus bringing knowledge about green energy to schools and colleges across the US.
We need help with school screenings.
We need street teams.
We need you to forward this email to your family, friends and lists across the nation.
Please post it on your FaceBook page.
Please get everyone you know to come and see this film.
Go to www.theFUELfilm.com for the trailer, release & location updates.
Please post the link of our website, or more effectively, embed our trailer onto your website: http://thefuelfilm.com/

FUEL opens to the public in New York on February 6th 2009 and in Los Angeles February 13th 2009 with an invitational screening on the 27th at United Nations headquarters in New York hosted by the Secretary General of the United Nations Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) and ThinkGreen, it will Premiere at The Gerald Lynch Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC, on the 4th Feb.

“FUEL achieves something few activist or environmental documentaries have done, which is to win you over. The audience at the opening was the choir, and although it was immensely popular and received a resounding ovation from them, it will play in Alabama and North Dakota too. It is not a polemic but a story, a story based on strong beliefs. Without losing its conviction, it allowed each of us, expert or newbie, to find our own way with the material, united all along by the charm of the narrator and director, Joshua Tickell. It is a masterful film.” – Paul Hawken

We at the FUEL Project wish everyone a happy and sustainable future.

Rhonah Harvey
Director Community Outreach Environmental Advocate
The FUEL Film
Best Documentary Audience Award Winner at Sundance Film Festival, 2008
www.thefuelfilm.com
IntentionMediaInc