‘Change Your Fuel, Change The World’
Award-winning documentary FUEL to be shown twice in November
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and the green organization I’ll Be The One will host two presentations of “FUEL,” winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary. The film examines the nation’s current energy sources and investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy alternatives.
“FUEL” will be shown on Thursday, Nov. 12, and Monday, Nov. 16, in the Samuel P. “Pat” Black III Conference Center, located on the first floor of Penn State Behrend’s Research and Economic Development Center (REDC). Parking will be available in the REDC deck, located on Technology Drive.
The presentations will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. Both showings are free and open to the public, and are the first public viewings of “FUEL” in Erie since the Sept. 15 premiere. The unrated film is 111 minutes and suitable for ages 12 and up.
Eleven years in the making, “FUEL” follows Louisiana native Josh Tickell throughout his quest to find sustainable, clean energy sources. After watching family members suffer from pollution-related cancers, Tickell hit the road in 1997 with the biodiesel-powered “Veggie Van” and a video camera, and began filming what would eventually become “Fuel.” “Change your fuel, change the world” became Tickell’s rallying cry.
Reviewer Kerry Lengel called “FUEL” “the unofficial sequel to Al Gore's ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ Besides global warming, it adds toxic waste and Mideast bloodshed to the indictment against our ‘addiction to oil,’ but spends more of its time discussing solutions.” The film has won screenwriting, documentary and environmental awards at festivals nationwide.
I’ll Be The One is a green organization working in Erie with a mission of “encouraging each Erie County resident to join the green movement and ‘be the one’ to ensure our future by making simple, immediate choices that improve our quality of life.”
“FUEL” is sponsored by the Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Greener Behrend, and the Office of Student Activities. For additional information about the presentations, call the Black School of Business at 814-898-6107. For more information on the film, visit thefuelfilm.com.