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GasLand (2010) - Fox rips fracking to shreds in intense activistic documentary



1 Film Excess nomination:

Best Documentary (lost to Secrets of the Tribe)

An attention-grabbing poster for Josh Fox's GasLand

GasLand provides a shocking look at how gas companies drill for and exploit natural gas reserves in several US states.

Unfortunately the film is made on a minuscule budget, which means bad cameras, shaky recordings and a scrimpy look, although there are moments of beauty. But the topic of the film is highly relevant and overlooked, and the more or less ordinary Americans we get to meet in the film are wonderful. The perforation and poisoning of God's own country for natural gas just isn't acceptable. Gasland is a shocking, well-made and deeply, deeply heartbreaking activistic documentary that makes this abundantly clear.
It is made by Josh Fox (Gasland Part II (2013)).

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Fox has reported it was made for just 15k $
Box office: In excess of 49k $
= Box office success (at least)
[GasLand premiered January 24 (Sundance) and runs 104 minutes. The film came about after Fox's family received a letter from a gas company in 2008 to offer them to lease their land for gas fracking in exchange for 100k $. Filming lasted 18 months, whereupon Fox edited the 200 hours of footage down. A detailed document on the film's impact can be seen here. It became highly controversial with the oil and gas industry fighting back and a rebutting documentary, FrackNation (2013) being created to support this effort. GasLand was screened at 14 festivals and grossed 30k $ in North America and 18k $ in Australia. Its earnings in 7 other countries were it has been screened are unreported. It was nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar which it lost to Inside Job. GasLand is fresh at 97 % with a 7 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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