DVD Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: DVD $ $24.95
Studio: Green Planet Productions
The 2011 documentary film The Big Fix recounts the events surrounding the 2010 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and paints a disturbing picture of the aftermath of the largest oil spill in America’s history.
Directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Fuel), the film contains interviews with scientists, government officials, journalists, attorneys and Gulf States natives. It sets out to reveal the powerful political and corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability of people and the environment in the aftermath of the spill. The film posits that no matter what the petroleum and government officials say, the oil is still coming ashore, the seafood industry is wiped out, and many people of the locals are sick.
Most disturbingly, Rebecca Harrell Tickell became ill after being exposed...
Price: DVD $ $24.95
Studio: Green Planet Productions
The 2011 documentary film The Big Fix recounts the events surrounding the 2010 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico and paints a disturbing picture of the aftermath of the largest oil spill in America’s history.
Directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (Fuel), the film contains interviews with scientists, government officials, journalists, attorneys and Gulf States natives. It sets out to reveal the powerful political and corporate system that put profits over the health and long-term sustainability of people and the environment in the aftermath of the spill. The film posits that no matter what the petroleum and government officials say, the oil is still coming ashore, the seafood industry is wiped out, and many people of the locals are sick.
Most disturbingly, Rebecca Harrell Tickell became ill after being exposed...
- 5/3/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell's Cannes 2011 documentary "The Big Fix," which investigates the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and its economic and environmental after-effects, will receive a June 19 release on DVD and VOD. GoDigital is handling digital rights while Lionsgate will handle the release on cable VOD and the social gifting platform PlayItFWD.com The Green Planet Productions release features Peter Fonda, who is an executive producer along with Tim Robbins and Maggie Wachsberger. Associate producer Jason Mraz contributed the original song “Collapsible Plans” to the film's soundtrack. UTA and Preferred Content repped the filmmakers.
- 5/1/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
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