''Crude Impact'' is a 2006 film written and directed by James Jandak Wood. It is a documentary about the effect of
fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of dead plants and animals that is extracted and burned as a fuel. The main fossil fuels are coal, oil, and natural gas. Fossil fuels m ...
s on issues such as global warming, the environmental crisis, society and the questionable practices of oil companies.
Crude Impact was an official selection at over thirty film festivals around the world. The film had a limited theatrical release in the United States and Canada. It has been broadcast on television in several countries. Crude Impact has been translated into French, Spanish, Czech, Turkish and Finnish.
Awards and nominations
*Best Environmental Feature Film at the 3rd Annual
Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles.
*Grand Jury Prize at the 2nd Annual Cinestrat Film Festival in Finestrat, Spain.
*Social Justice Award at the 22nd Annual
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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The festival boasts screenings of over 200 feature films and shorts from different countries and regions. SBIFF al ...
.
*One of The Best of Fest films at DOCNZ New Zealand Documentary Film Festival.
*The Hands Around the World Award and the Best Cultural Issues Film award at the 4th Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival.
*The Host City Award and the Student Judges Awards at EKOFILM 2007 in the Czech Republic.
*Nominated for three awards at the Sacramento International Film Festival - Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Best Environmental Film.
*Nominated for Best World Popular Scientific Film at the 42nd International Popular Scientific and Documentary Film Festival in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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Featured speakers
*Tundi Agardy
*Guy Caruso
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Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn is an American civil liberties attorney specializing in Internet law. She represented Daniel J. Bernstein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in '' Bernstein v. United States''.
Education
She received her undergraduate degree ...
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Julian Darley
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Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Kenneth S. Deffeyes was a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. He claimed Chickasaw ancestry.[Christopher Flavin
Christopher Flavin is the former president of the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization focused on natural resource and environmental issues, based in Washington, DC. He is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of ...]
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Amy Goodman
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Thom Hartmann
Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Thom Hartmann Pro ...
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Richard Heinberg
Richard William Heinberg is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of 14 books, and presently serves as the senior fellow at the Post C ...
*Terry Lynn Karl
*Santiago Kawarim
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Michael Klare
Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA), defense correspondent of ''The Nation'' magazine and author of ''Resource Wars'' ...
*Evon Peter
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Kavita Ramdas
Kavita Nandini Ramdas (born 1963) is a globally recognized advocate for gender equity and justice.
Previously, she was the director of the Open Society Foundations’ Women's Rights Program and the senior advisor to the Ford Foundation's presi ...
*William Rees
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Matthew Simmons
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*Bill Twist
*Lynne Twist
External links
''Crude Impact''- official website
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2006 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about environmental issues
2006 documentary films
Documentary films about petroleum
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
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