The Yes Men Fix the World and We Live in Public are both available now to pre-order at Amazon.

- Where Indigenous peoples in Canada are endangered by toxic pollution and future oil spills

- Where big oil companies and other Sky people are destroying a huge ancient forest

- Where giant hell trucks are used to mine the most expensive unobtanium oil to feed America’s addiction

To support the release of Dirty Oil, out nationwide, in March, we have worked with The Co-operative to create the campaign website ToxicFuels.com, to support the film
ToxicFuels.com

Find out more now.

Also check out
AvatarSands.com

Text coutesy of the latest campaign by environmental groups including Greenpeace.

Neve Campbell, Canadian actress and environmentalist, narrated Dirty Oil. The film is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Leslie Iwerk and is the first feature-length documentary film about tar sands.

The process of extracting usable oil from tar sands – which is hugely energy-intensive and pollution-heavy – is a massive threat to the natural environment and the health of nearby communities. But the impacts spread more widely too.

For a start, almost without anybody noticing, the US is now importing more oil from Canada than from anywhere else, and most of it is from tar sands – and that’s feeding, rather than reducing, America’s self-admitted “addiction” to oil.

In meeting this demand, Canada has now become one of the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, with potentially disastrous impacts on global warming and climate change.

There are also implications on a wide range of financial investments, savings and pensions, which might be at risk when world governments start clamping down on carbon-intensive industries.

Find out more in Leslie Iwerk’s riveting new film. The one-night-only UK premiere event on 15 March, devised by our campaign partners The Co-operative, will be beamed live by satellite to selected cinemas across the country.

The film will be introduced by a special VIP guest, and you can text your questions on Dirty Oil or tar sands to an expert panel.

Watch the trailer for Dirty Oil.

You can…

• Find out about Dirty Oil screenings in your area, and book your tickets

Supported by The Co-operative and WWF

In Peru, there is a sense of excitement ahead of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony.

People who have never even heard of the Oscars are suddenly taking an interest, and local media websites have set up digital stopwatches counting down the seconds, minutes, hours and days until the big night on 7 March.

This year, for the first time, a Peruvian film, The Milk of Sorrow, has been nominated for an Oscar – in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

The Milk of Sorrow, or in Spanish La Teta Asustada (literally The Frightened Breast), has already won about a dozen international awards, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last year.

Just 23 and with no formal acting training, Ms Solier has become the poster girl for a new Peru

for the full article visit the BBC website

Milk of Sorrow will be in UK Cinemas this spring, courtesy of Dogwoof

Monday 15th March sees the Dirty Oil nationwide satellite premiere. The film addressess the catastrophic effect of Canada’s Tar Sands. Told through the eyes of environmentalists, ‘big oil’ chiefs and aboriginal citizens, DIRTY OIL shocks audiences with its portrayal of America’s dangerous addiction to oil.

Book tickets now for the nationwide satellite premiere and beyond:

www.toxicfuels.com

Yes. Poor standards of farm animal welfare combined with over-reliance on antibiotics; pressure from government to adopt GM technologies; routine pesticide use polluting our land and water supplies; major corporations controlling our food systems – these are all features of our very own British food system.

Learn about these issues and then check out the 10 Simple Ways you can make a positive change.

Get Involved

Working with The Soil Association

This week Joe Berlinger’s Crude picked up the main award at the annual Cinema For Peace dinner in France. Guests in attendance included Sir Bob Geldof, former Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev, and French screen icon Catherine Deneuve.

Leonardo DiCaprio, also in attendance with his Israeli model girlfriend Bar Refaeli, described Crude as being “A true-life drama.”

Crude is still on release in UK cinemas, you can find screening details at the official site: www.crudethemovie.co.uk/screenings/

The DVD is planned for release in April. You can pre-order you copy from Amazon here.

Hot on the heels of its Oscar nomination we were delighted to welcome director Robert Kenner and writer Eric Schlosser to the premiere and Q&A at the Curzon Mayfair.

Thandie Newton, Robert Kenner, and Stella McCartney

A special thanks too from all at Dogwoof to Stella McCartney who hosted the UK premiere in support of Meat Free Monday, and for throwing open the doors of her Mayfair store for the afterparty – a good time was had by all!

Dirty Oil Film Website
Toxic Fuels – Dirty Oil film

Film Information

Director:Leslie Iwerks

Running Time: 73 mins

Country: USA

Powered By: VideoBuzz

Look at the list of participating cinemas. Click on a cinema to go through to the booking page where you can buy your tickets now.

There will be a special day of one-off nationwide screenings on Monday 15th February, many of which will be accompanied by Q&As. This will be the only chance to see this compelling film in some parts of the country so please lend your support on the 15th.

Monday 15th

Aberdeen - Belmont Picturehouse
Bath - Little Theatre Cinema
Birmingham - Vue
Bristol - Vue Longwell Green
Camberley - Vue
Cambridge - Vue
Cheshire - Vue Cheshire Oaks
Dublin - Vue
Dundee - Dundee Contemporary Arts
Edinburgh - Filmhouse
Edinburgh - Vue Omni
Exeter - Picturehouse
Inverness - Eden Court
Inverness - Vue
Leeds - Vue Leeds Light
Liverpool - Picturehouse at FACT
London - Brixton Ritzy Picturehouse
London - Clapham Picturehouse
London - Everyman Hampstead
London - Greenwich Picturehouse
London - Lexi Cinema
London - Odeon Panton Street
London - Vue Acton
London - Vue Finchley Road
London - Vue Fulham
London - Vue Harrow
London - Vue Islington
London - Vue Westfield
Norwich - Vue
Oxford - Vue
Plymouth - Vue
Reading - Vue
Stamford - Stamford Arts Centre
York - Vue

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Director: Robert Kenner
Starring: Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser
Running Time: 94 mins
Country: U.S.A.
Website: Food Inc UK Movie Website

Food Inc UK Movie Website