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Sundance 2008: The must see ‘bio’ pic

Published on August 20, 2012

In the docu film world there are two kinds of filmmakers: the person who thinks about a subject before picking up a camera and then you have the person who picks up a camera to document his/her own reality. Josh Tickell's current reality is one with the world's reality: you'll have to watch the trailer below to get a sense of how a diseased mother nature affected his mother's health and yours to.

Selected as a part of the 2008 Sundance film festival's U.S. Documentary film Competition, Fields of Fuel is about his search for an alternative to America's dependence on foreign oil. America is engulfed in an oil war, the environment is being destroyed and gas prices have gone through the roof.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).