Roadside Attractions Melts for Ondi Timoner’s ‘Cool It’

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Cool It is heading to TIFF next week, and the producers behind Ondi Timoner’s latest documentary film won’t have to sign a deal in the wee small hours in the morning, as Roadside Attractions have preemptively grabbed the rights to the “eco-docu” and are setting it with an eventual Fall release.

In Cool It, the doc-filmmaker behind DIG! and We Live in Public basically barks up Bjorn Lomborg’s tree, focusing on “the controversial author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who takes on the issue of climate change, challenging the status quo, and pointing toward new science and technology that might hold the solutions for our future.” If you ask me, I’m looking forward to the eventual documentary that discusses climate change problem in terms of radical changes such as our needless consumption of animals and putting the breaks on the world population – the real problems that no one, apart from UN, are willing to really address.

Roadside Attractions’ co-president Eric d’Arbeloff appears to be hopeful with the doc stating that, “COOL IT is so exciting because it’s radically structured toward solutions. In the same way our movie THE COVE demonstrated that a small group of activists can change the world, we think that this brave film could help start real progress on global warming.” Wishful thinking Mr. D’Arbeloff.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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