PatColo
18th May 2011, 10:34 PM
Gulf Oil film at Cannes Festival, voice to millions poisoned people (http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/exclusive-gulf-oil-film-at-cannes-festival-voice-to-millions-poisoned-people)
May 18th, 2011 6:16 am ET
Deborah Dupre
Human Rights Examiner
The millions of people poisoned from the Gulf oil "spill" catastrophe finally have a voice now that The Big Fix documentary premiered at Cannes Film Festival last night, ending with the theatre full of film critics, eager buyers', Peter Fonda's adoring fans', and human rights defenders' standing ovation for the film, its director Josh Tickell and its solution, a revolution.
The Big Fix has been dubbed the Cannes Festival 2011controversial film and compared to Academy Award winning Farenheit 911 and Inside Job.
The film has been billed as the inside job of the oil industry.
One report states "dangerous backlash" from The Big Fix.
“We are taking on the oil companies, the U.S. government, the military and the banks,” Tickell said.
“And we are exposing something that the U.S. media didn’t cover … So there is a danger.”
Tickell, with his wife Rebecca, dedicated film crew, and Fonda spent the last year determined to be the voice of the millions of suppressed poisoned Gulf people suffering in silence, a voice those sick and dying people have pleaded to have.
The Big Fix exposes Gulf oil operation truth that government, BP and mainstream media have covered up throughout the ongoing humanitarian and environmental chemical catastrophe.
Peter Fonda told this writer Tuesday that, before a press conference, a government representative warned him to say nothing about certain things, such as the thousands of dead baby dolphins in the Gulf. Still aiming for Easy Rider freedom, Fonda's response was, "I will tell them about the dead baby dolphins -- and much more."
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Both Fonda and Amy Smart are among celebrities who traveled to the Gulf with the Tickells to assess the catastrophe, as highlighted in the film.
While the film neglects some key Gulf operation components, such as the manmade antibiotic resistant bacteria in Corexit being sprayed as a dispersant, the military Gulf agenda, or money spent to hide the Gulf truth from the public, the film powerfully packs so much truth about Gulf corruption and deceit into it, there was a ten minute standing ovation.
"The audience would have applauded much longer had Josh not stopped them," said Mathilde Rottier, the film crew French attache.
"A standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival is almost unheard of," she said.
If The Big Fix premiere and related controversy it is igniting in Cannes is any indication of this film's impact, Gulf truth will now be learned globally and humanitarian aid that the Peoples of the Gulf desperately need might be forthcoming.
Chris Hedges holds a major role in the film. He inspires personal responsibility and resistance -- peaceful revolution as the only remaining solution to corporatism, another word for fascism.
At the premiere after-party, Tickell ended his speech with that ultimate solution to the ongoing energy disasters globally caused by corruption, "Viva la revolution!"
May 18th, 2011 6:16 am ET
Deborah Dupre
Human Rights Examiner
The millions of people poisoned from the Gulf oil "spill" catastrophe finally have a voice now that The Big Fix documentary premiered at Cannes Film Festival last night, ending with the theatre full of film critics, eager buyers', Peter Fonda's adoring fans', and human rights defenders' standing ovation for the film, its director Josh Tickell and its solution, a revolution.
The Big Fix has been dubbed the Cannes Festival 2011controversial film and compared to Academy Award winning Farenheit 911 and Inside Job.
The film has been billed as the inside job of the oil industry.
One report states "dangerous backlash" from The Big Fix.
“We are taking on the oil companies, the U.S. government, the military and the banks,” Tickell said.
“And we are exposing something that the U.S. media didn’t cover … So there is a danger.”
Tickell, with his wife Rebecca, dedicated film crew, and Fonda spent the last year determined to be the voice of the millions of suppressed poisoned Gulf people suffering in silence, a voice those sick and dying people have pleaded to have.
The Big Fix exposes Gulf oil operation truth that government, BP and mainstream media have covered up throughout the ongoing humanitarian and environmental chemical catastrophe.
Peter Fonda told this writer Tuesday that, before a press conference, a government representative warned him to say nothing about certain things, such as the thousands of dead baby dolphins in the Gulf. Still aiming for Easy Rider freedom, Fonda's response was, "I will tell them about the dead baby dolphins -- and much more."
Advertisement
Both Fonda and Amy Smart are among celebrities who traveled to the Gulf with the Tickells to assess the catastrophe, as highlighted in the film.
While the film neglects some key Gulf operation components, such as the manmade antibiotic resistant bacteria in Corexit being sprayed as a dispersant, the military Gulf agenda, or money spent to hide the Gulf truth from the public, the film powerfully packs so much truth about Gulf corruption and deceit into it, there was a ten minute standing ovation.
"The audience would have applauded much longer had Josh not stopped them," said Mathilde Rottier, the film crew French attache.
"A standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival is almost unheard of," she said.
If The Big Fix premiere and related controversy it is igniting in Cannes is any indication of this film's impact, Gulf truth will now be learned globally and humanitarian aid that the Peoples of the Gulf desperately need might be forthcoming.
Chris Hedges holds a major role in the film. He inspires personal responsibility and resistance -- peaceful revolution as the only remaining solution to corporatism, another word for fascism.
At the premiere after-party, Tickell ended his speech with that ultimate solution to the ongoing energy disasters globally caused by corruption, "Viva la revolution!"