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Fields of Fuel Plays Tonight at the Pacific Palisades Film FestivalFields of Fuel, winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award: Documentary and the Sedona Film Festival's Most Compelling Documentary and the Arizona Republic Bill Muller Award for Excellence in Screenwriting, will be playing tonight at the Pacific Palisades Film Festival tonight. While we don't have extra tickets to tonight's screening, there may still be some tickets for sale online at FriendsOfFilm.com. |
Day 10: Tonight's the Night!It's all led up to tonight. All the hard work, seven screenings with Q&A's (including two for high school students), countless press interviews, the Veggie Van parades, and yes, even the parties, have all brought us to this moment. The Sundance jury announces their selections for the best of the festival tonight. FOF and 15 other documentaries compete for the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, as well as Directing, Cinematography and Editing awards. |
Day 7: Utah Students Get the Biodiesel Bug Some 200 area students gathered for a special Fields of Fuel screening this morning in Salt Lake City as part of The Sundance Film Festival High School Screening Program. Following the film, Josh was on hand to take questions from the students, who came from the following high schools: Lone Peak, East Hollywood, Park City and East. |
Day 6: Gaining Momentum LA indie, soul band, The Jane Does, rocked the FOF premiere party last night at the Red Stag Lodge in Park City, keeping crew members out til the wee hours. (The Jane Does' anti-war song "Who's Kidding Who" is featured in Fields of Fuel.) But it was back to work this morning for the team, starting with more press and a book signing at Sundance’s Giving Suite where copies of Josh's latest book, Biodiesel America, are on sale throughout the festival. |
Day 5: The Fields of Fuel World Premiere!!! Official FOF Hero, Jon Luskin, raced the final version of the film through a snow storm arriving just half an hour before the premiere. The good people at Sundance accepted the final cut ready to play at 11:30am. |
Day 4: Corrupted Tape, Nerves Frayed at FOF CompoundOur assistant editor/graphic designer extrodinaire, Neal Sickles, was scheduled to fly from Los Angeles into Salt Lake City at midnight last night with the final edit of Fields of Fuel for this morning's World Premeiere. Unfortunately, the techno gods were not with us and the tape was unplayable. So, our co-producer Darius Fisher jumped a flight with a fresh tape in L.A. early this morning, arrived to SLC at 8:56 a.m. We sent a car, and a back-up car to get him, and they are now apparently 10 minutes away. We don't know, however if the Sundance officials will allow us to use the new cut of the film, or if they will make use screen the version that we turned into them last week! |
Care to Save the World With Those Fries?The buzz around Fields of Fuel continued at high volume Sunday, the day before the documentary's world premiere at the Prospector Square Theatre. The American Movie Channel (AMC) interviewed Josh this morning, getting a taste for Josh's passion for the biodiesel movement and taking a ride in the now-famous Veggie Van. They were joined in the van by FOF stars and Sundance Co-sponsors Kenneth Hern and Leon van Kraayenburg of Nova Biosource Fuels, and Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon from Solazyme, a California company that has figured out how to make a car run on biodiesel fuel made from algae.
The afternoon saw a greasy, french-fry-smelling version of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- a string of FOF's biodiesel vehicles, including the Veggie Van -- make it's way down Park City's Main Street. Street Team volunteers walked along the parade route, chatting with onlookers about the film and how biodiesel works. Overheard from Park City fans:
“Look, it's the Veggie Van!”
“Do you smell that?”
“It's making me hungry.”
Look for AMC's story later this week at:
http://www.amctv.com/originals/shootout
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It's Hip to be CoolWith its small army of volunteers, the Fields of Fuel film crew descended on Main Street, passing out buttons and stickers and educating festival goers about biodiesel and its potential to relieve US dependency on foreign oil on the eve of the movie's world premiere. While most people were admittedly confused about biodiesel (is it made from used cooking grease? where do you buy it? how do you make your car run on it?), nearly everyone was enthusiastic about the idea of using biofuels. |
Pre-Premiere MadnessEarly saturday morning Josh met with Dan Rather at the Red Stag Lodge here in Park City. |
Fueling Good About BiodieselFriday turned out to be a big day for the Fields of Fuel film crew. Spirits were already high following Thursday night's private screening of Josh Tickell's documentary at Robert Redford's Sundance Resort, and by mid-day here at production central, the mood was adrenalizing. |
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